I kept going through private emotional weather

Dear Delyara, What I’m proud of is not only the academic result. It’s the context. I kept learning while carrying things that made concentration harder than anyone around me probably knew. Fear, heaviness, old wounds, tiredness, inner noise — all of it living around and underneath the work. And still, I stayed. I think I used to admire only the final proof. Now I admire the staying more. It built more of my life than talent ever did.