The German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche once said “That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.” Until more recently, I hadn’t fully appreciated or related to this quote. It was the summer holidays and I can’t have been much older than 9 or 10 years old. I was standing anxiously outside a classmate’s house, too petrified to knock on his front door. I had bumped into my classmate Thomas a few days previous when riding my bike around his block; this is when he had invite