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user-inactivated  ·  2886 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: May 25, 2016

A girl in my year in the uni suffers from some sort of brain stem damage. Don't know what exactly is going on, but she's struggling with it. She's eighteen.

Did my best to comfort her when she was struggling to hold back tears during the lecture. Seemed like the right thing to do. Nobody else did.

Speaking my mind is surprisingly easy, given how much weight I was giving to not saying the "wrong thing".

The week's getting only more pressing as exams and test come one after another and debts don't disappear on their own, but, surprisingly, I'm more resilient to stress than ever. Confidence comes from being in control of your own body and knowing that you can do more with it.