Today marks an important milestone in my life. I just submitted my PhD thesis, and it felt extremely awkward. After I pulled myself together, I visited this bench above, my sad place in Southampton. I have come here so many times. When I get upset, frustrated, or disappointed, I come here to cry, to think, to talk to myself out loud. And today, the reason I came here after my thesis submission was to let go of the things that made me miserable for the last four years. Over the past years, I got upset over so many different things. I got upset over my PhD thesis, over and over again. I got upset over presentations, progression review deadlines, writing, not writing, not being able to read, not being able to understand what I read due to language barriers... I got upset over the wrong people, and then over people who were even more wrong. Countless things. This bench has witnessed my sorrow and stayed still for me while I burst into tears each and every time. And now, since I...
Everything starts with a dream.