My answer: yes. I’ve always been curious, which is why I keep stumbling into adventures. My life has also gone through a lot of remodeling. Growing up in Nigeria taught me resilience. Moving across continents helped me develop adaptability. Graduate school showed me that a “short reading” can be 200 pages. I believe people are born with a rough draft of who they are. Experiences are the editors or the notoriously famous second reviewer. Sometimes they make us better. Sometimes they add embarrassing footnotes. Anyway, we end up with a story worth telling—even if it includes losing an argument with mute entities like cactuses or mountains.