Every place changes the person who stops long enough to notice it. Not a travel diary, a record of what the road gives back.
Every city on that map left a mark.
This is where the first one did.
Looking at the city
that watched me being born.
Growing up Norwegian means growing up inside Janteloven, the unwritten law that you're not better than anyone else, so don't act like it. It teaches humility. It also teaches you to shrink. I spent years learning the difference.
Everything Janteloven trained me to shrink from, Brazil asked me to raise. Different heat, different rhythm, a completely different idea of what a body and a life are allowed to feel like. I didn't adjust. I broke.
