"In Montreal, you see plenty of people feeling free to just be themselves in public—I'd like to think I support and in certain ways embody that kind of free individualism. But sometimes, if someone maybe acts out or crosses some boundary, I catch myself thinking, "why didn't they think about how others would react when they did or said that?" and I sort of laugh at myself in that moment. I feel like the quiet tension and rigid norms of my home and school life growing up in the suburbs cast that spell on me, despite being under the impression that I was resisting all that. Now that I'm here, I want to get rid of that kind of over-analyzing and just live the way I want, the way that's good for me. Like meditating in the park." (2/2)