Portals, stories, the story of the self, self-determination and self-discovery, the crafting of a life of meaning.
It’s beautifully written and, as El-Motar said, “unbearably beautiful.”
I love stories about the power of stories, and I think story is somehow inherently linked to the idea of freedom, and how we write the stories of ourselves, and how we reclaim that space and power when we have let others write that story, and why and how that matters.