Overgivelse 1988 -

It won’t feel like victory. It’ll feel like falling. But sometimes, falling is the only way to find out you had wings all along.

Overgivelse 1988: The Year I Learned to Stop Fighting Overgivelse 1988

But 1988 was the year the Berlin Wall still stood, Margaret Thatcher was in her third term, and in Denmark, where I was living at the time, the autumn rains came early and stayed late. I remember cycling through Nørrebro one November evening, coat soaked through, radio playing something melancholic, and thinking: I can’t keep doing this. It won’t feel like victory