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Apr 2024
25m 25s

Fast & Furious: Real-life Version

Afaf Ouardi
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The urge to grow up and improve too fast in a young age is unconscious and also uncontrollable. We don’t get to notice it until we get drained and overwhelmed from consistently running and living in the uncertain future. 
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