Maame

by Jessica George

“It made me grow up,” I answer. “It made me grow up when I should have had more time.

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

“We grow up fast. Not by force, but because we are needed.”