Malala Yousafzai

So for me now, like I have to work for the rest of my life to prove that it was well deserved.

And and for me, that is just, you know, seeing this dream of girls education becoming a reality in every part of the world.

But at the same time, I thought, OK, but do you have to change as a person?

Are you supposed to live a certain way?

In college, though, this was the first time that I allowed myself to be more of myself, to really just test it.

And to be honest, I didn't even know who I was.

Am I funny?

Am I not?

What do I enjoy?

I didn't know any of that.

I have never seen boys my age.

I have never, you know, been away from my parents or lived on my own.

I can decide.

I can go to a Diwali party.

I can stay up late at 3 a.m.

And, you know, like my parents would not know about this.

And, you know, I could sign up for rowing or I could go to the aerobics 80s themed party.

Any of that.

We could do all of that.

I was somehow feeling that I was reliving all the missed years of my childhood because of the activism that I had to take from such a young age that I missed.