Maame

by Jessica George

For some reason, at night, when you’re meant to be sleeping, your brain wants answers to everything.

“Comparison is no friend of mental health,”

“What you go through and how it affects you is just as valid as someone dealing with their own situation.

We could apply that thinking to the name Maame: the responsible one. The woman. The mother. Often before her time.”

A person’s troubles are not measured by the size of those troubles, but by how much they weigh on the individual carrying them.

It’s not your job to make your colleagues feel comfortable all of the time.

I believe the difficulty of life has much to do with understanding and then navigating how the people you love both express and receive love themselves. It cannot be your responsibility, your burden, to reshape people into someone you’d like them to be.

Ultimately, you must either accept a person for who they are, how they behave, how they express themselves emotionally, and find a healthy way to live with them, or let them go entirely.

“Comparing yourself to others and deeming yourself better off is no remedy for mental illness.