Un-Normal by Dr Emma Svanberg

Un-Normal by Dr Emma Svanberg

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Un-Normal by Dr Emma Svanberg
Un-Normal by Dr Emma Svanberg
I used to think I could change the world

I used to think I could change the world

Now I just want to watch it change

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Nov 10, 2024
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I’m not even exaggerating. I genuinely, 100% thought I could make things different in the world. When I was a kid, I had a phase of saying that I’d been ‘put on this earth to help people’. I was reading a lot of supernatural books at the time and had the wonderful, egocentric conviction that every life had a purpose. I was lucky enough to be hanging out with drama kids through this phase of my life, so everyone accepted that this was a perfectly legitimate thing to both believe, and say out loud.

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