Starting over in a new city means nobody’s expectations followed you. Use that blank space.

Reputations are mostly other people’s memory, and moving leaves that behind. The version of you that everybody at your old school fixed in place at thirteen does not make the trip, which means you get to decide what is true about you now instead of arguing with something already written down.

Use the first month deliberately. Say yes to things the old version would have skipped, introduce yourself the way you want to be known, start the one habit you keep meaning to start. The window does not stay open forever, and it is genuinely wide while it lasts.