“Sometimes, you don’t grow wrong. You just grow in the wrong room.”
For most of my school years, I lived with a quiet ache, the feeling of being slightly misplaced. I had friends, routines, and marks on report cards, yet something inside me stayed untouched, unseen. I often felt like a visitor in a space that wasn’t meant for me. The classrooms felt heavy, the subjects distant, and I carried the silent belief that I was average, ordinary, and not someone who fully fit anywhere. But life has gentle ways of waiting for the right moment.
COVID paused the world, and when it resumed, my life led me toward the decision my seventh-grade self once made without understanding: Psychology.
And suddenly, the world shifted its shape around me.
“And then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk to bloom.”
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— Anaïs Nin
Stepping into psychology felt like stepping into light. College didn’t just teach me theories; it taught me myself. For the first time, I was in a space where my softness wasn’t a misunderstanding, where my curiosity wasn’t strange, and where my quietness didn’t need to apologise. I became someone who was seen. Someone who was appreciated.Someone who finally belonged. It felt as if a part of me that had been sleeping for years finally opened its eyes and recognised itself.
“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment, not the flower.”
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— Alexander Den Heijer
Psychology gave me language for emotions I had carried since childhood. It showed me that belonging is not about fitting everywhere. It’s about finding the one place where your inner world finally meets the outer one.
And today, being part of Let’s Live, I carry that truth with me. I want to help create the kind of spaces that once saved me — soft, safe, understanding spaces where someone who feels invisible can finally exhale and be seen.
“You will bloom in the place that feels like sunlight to you.”
If you feel out of place right now, I hope my story reminds you gently:
You are not hard to love, you are not difficult to understand, and you are not meant to shrink yourself to fit into the wrong spaces.
Your place exists.
And when you find it, you will bloom without even trying.
