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WhIf there is one thing I wish I had started doing earlier in life, it is choosing myself.

I wish I had started working and building my financial independence much sooner. I would have learned at a younger age how to earn money, save, and build something of my own.

For many years, I spent so much time thinking about everyone else that I often forgot to ask myself what I needed, what I wanted, or what made me happy.

I would have travelled more, discovered other cultures, rested without feeling guilty, and enjoyed life instead of constantly postponing it.

Growing older has taught me that choosing myself is not selfish. Caring for myself does not mean caring less about others.

I cannot recover the years I spent putting myself last, but I can choose not to live the years ahead in the same way.

I wish I had chosen myself sooner, but today is still a good day to begin.at’s one thing you wish you had started doing earlier in life?

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If you had to sIf I had to switch lives with a fictional character for one week, I would choose Jo March from Little Women.

Not because I dream of living without a laptop, spellcheck, or an undo button. After one ink stain, I would probably be ready to come home.

I would choose Jo because she writes with courage. She keeps writing even when people question her ambitions, and she refuses to make herself smaller just to please others.

As a writer, I understand what it means to carry stories that insist on being told. For one week, I would borrow Jo’s determination, fill every page I could, and return to my own life with ink-stained fingers and a little more faith in my own voice.witch lives with a fictional character for a week, who would you choose?

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Yes. My favourite villains live in my house.

Melón and Kosmos have never destroyed a city or fought a superhero. Their crimes are smaller: stealing my seat the moment I stand up, declaring a half-full bowl completely empty and waking the household at three in the morning for reasons they refuse to disclose.

They also have accomplices. Mía is the Catwoman of the Feline Council. She handles surveillance and watches everyone over her shoulder, as if the other cats were merely supporting actors in her film. Kruker investigates the mysterious red dot. Wallie controls all closed doors. Together, they form the Feline Council.

The humans are supposedly the heroes. We pay the rent, buy the food, clean the evidence and open doors the cats immediately refuse to enter.

Yet nobody applauds us.

The cats create chaos, look at us with innocent faces and somehow convince everyone that they are the victims.

Why do I prefer the villains?

Because after destroying everything, they purr. One slow blink later, all charges are dropped.

If that is not a supervillain power, I do not know what is.

Does your favourite little villain have whiskers? Tell me their name in the comments.

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