Malala Yousafzai

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, okay, like, but do you have to change as a person?

Like, 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?

Like, 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.

You know, I think about the roof climbing experience oftentimes because that was offered to me by a stranger at college who told me that there is this crazy thing that only cool college students do.