Always been the outlier who felt the urge to right every wrong since age three. Happy, driven people can be a handful — and tend to piss off those at war with themselves, where joy becomes an act of radical rebellion. Sticking to the belief that “feeling too deeply” isn’t a flaw helped me connect, stay in tune with myself, and live more richly — messier, but truer. Paired with my insufferable hunger for adventure and change, you can bet it has led me through some of the ugliest, most brutal — but also magnificent and transformative — times of my life… yet.