I’m in my 30s and the thing I understand now that I couldn’t at 22 is that the people I was most desperate to impress were the ones least capable of seeing me clearly. The approval I chased hardest was always from people who didn’t have the emotional equipment to give it, and recognizing that changed everything.
It was a Tuesday afternoon in a seminar room at the University of Sydney, and my supervisor had just handed ...
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