The Wrong Daughter

by Dandy Smith

Wanting to please your parents is one of those universal instincts, like opening your mouth to apply mascara.

‘Don’t be afraid to play the main character in your own life. Don’t be a person that things just happen to because it’s easier than being a person who makes things happen.’

That’s the thing with break-ups, you aren’t just mourning the person you loved but the life you planned together. All of it, gone, lost on the wind.

‘Some people can’t love without destroying what they care for most,’ he says.

You can love something so much that you hold onto it too tightly and crush it to death.