10 years in Australia.

I was different yet exactly the same — for what feels like a lifetime ago.

Trigger warning: depression, suicidal ideation (and some great joys, too).

I arrived in Australia exactly 10 years ago today. It was a cold morning, the air was crisp, and the sky was clear. I remember thinking it was the biggest and highest sky I’d ever seen. A friend I was meeting for the first time picked me up at the airport. Sydney has a different kind of coldness compared to where we both came from. We were going to the same college and…