One of the saddest things I learned on my journey is that in this life, no one gives you anything for free.
Given all the hardship I’ve experienced, it would be easy to think that the world is full of bad people, but I prefer to think that most people are good. It’s just that the good people make less noise.
I tried not to lose hope and remembered a popular mantra from my country: “Forward ever, backward never.
If you don’t know something exists, you can’t want it.
Once, I went on holiday with a girlfriend, and it was really hard because I didn’t know what I was supposed to do with myself. Why were we wasting time like that? I need food, I need clothes, but I don’t need vacation. I didn’t understand that I had the right to take time off work, and to be honest, I still don’t totally get the point of doing nothing on purpose.