You’ve abandoned more usernames than you can remember. Your actual name doesn’t have a delete button.

Online you get endless fresh starts, and each one lets you abandon a version of yourself with no consequences attached. The name people actually call you does not work that way. It accumulates, it walks into rooms ahead of you, and no settings page exists where it can be reset.

That is worth holding on to in the moments when something feels disposable and nobody appears to be watching. How you treat people at your job, in your group, at your school lands on the permanent one. Decide what you want attached to it, then spend this week adding to that.