“You’ve created this distance not because your community rejected you but because you felt you were not worthy of being part of it. This is an easy trap to fall into, Benny. Believe me, I’ve done it myself. For a long time, I labelled myself shy and quiet, until I started to realise that I’d outgrown that label. I wasn’t that person anymore. And my label was keeping me from things I wanted to do, people I wanted to get closer to.”
