The Compound

by Aisling Rawle

I’ve always been a passive kind of person; it is both my worst quality and the thing that people like most about me.

I thought that we had lost some crucial bit of power, not from the act of being judged, but by showing that it meant something to us.

but rather than fixing a situation that made me unhappy, I tended to hang around and wait for someone to fix it for me.