Maame

by Jessica George

You can’t be sad for no reason; it’s not a human’s natural state. In life, you’re meant to be happy or content, only experiencing moments of sadness, so if sadness is your natural state, what does that say about you?”

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

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. Either way, you must release yourself from that responsibility.”

My parents are not

special people, they’re ordinary, and one of my problems is that I’m expecting perfection from ordinary people.

‘Regardless of how you behave, a lot of things are going to be out of your control because this world was made to test you. Protect your peace in whatever and every way that you can.”’