AI Generated Image - Rewritten I was sitting across from a friend in a tiny coffee shop in Central, Hong Kong. We hadn’t seen each other in five years , but within minutes we were deep in conversation like no time had passed. She’d doubled down on her side hustle this year and was doing brilliantly — but she was exhausted. Really exhausted. With twenty minutes left before I had to leave for the airport, she paused, looked at me, and asked: “Do you feel better now than you di