“Khud hi toh hai hum kinare.” “We ourselves are the shore.”

I must have listened to that lyric hundreds of times during college.

It comes from the song Kinare from Queen, my favorite Bollywood film about discovering that sometimes the strength you've been searching for has been within you all along. Whenever I felt overwhelmed, lonely, or needed courage, I would play the song on repeat. It reminded me that I could become my own anchor.