Finding Solace in the Snow

Being the gifted kid is actually just a fancy way of saying you are completely burned

out and lonely. I was drowning in textbooks and winter depression, staring out the

library window, until Seojun noticed. He didn’t try to fix me or tell me to study harder.

He just sat there. He brought me chocolate, walked me home in the snow, and let me be a

mess without judgment. Slowly, the library became the only place I could breathe.

It wasn't a lightning strike moment, just a quiet realization in the snow that I didn't have to

carry the weight of the world by myself anymore.