Every morning, Adi tells himself: “Five more minutes.”

Five minutes become an hour. The hour becomes a day. And somewhere between the scrolling, the 2 A.M. overthinking, and his father’s words, “You won’t amount to anything,” Adi starts to believe it.

Everyone around him is moving forward. Adi only watches. He starts a new life every Monday and abandons it by Wednesday. Then a girl enters his life and, for a while, it feels like she might fix everything. But his real problem was never her. It was the boy he kept leaving behind every single day.

A deeply honest coming-of-age novel about procrastination, loneliness, and the quiet courage of beginning again.

You don’t need your life figured out at eighteen. You just need to stop abandoning yourself.