Malala Yousafzai

And I always have felt that now I need to live up to the expectation.

You know, it was given for the work I had done, but it was also given for the work that that is ahead of us.

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.