CHAPTER 10
FIGHTING THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE NORMAL
Being a unicorn is difficult, complex, and tiring. Being different isn’t easy. Not fitting into the norm isn’t easy. Being in suspension, in evolution, in an obsessive tension with something that is always better isn’t easy. Constantly questioning yourself—getting out of your daily comfort zone, continuously evolving—isn’t easy.
Over the pages that follow, I want to recount to you some fragments of this complexity, as I’ve lived it, in my attempt—intimate and private—to grow into a unicorn and to then become the best unicorn I could imagine. I want to share this struggle with you, this multidimensional tension, and the way that I’ve tried to resolve it. I’ll do so through stories, memories, ...
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