Love, ambition, identity, enough.
The Life Around It is everything the other worlds leave behind. Family. Friendship. Identity. The quieter questions that don't happen in a boardroom, a boxing ring, or while learning something new - but quietly shape all of them. This is where I try to make sense of building a life that feels like my own.
For years, I thought everyone else had been given the instructions for how to be normal, and I had somehow missed them. On belonging, learning what to change about ourselves - and what to protect.
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