Only Daughter

by Sarah A. Denzil

every parent haphazardly walks: the line where we give our children enough freedom to allow them to evolve, while at the same time guarding them from danger.

‘Do you think a person can be good if they have bad thoughts?’ He glances at me in surprise. ‘What sort of thoughts?’ ‘Ones that see the bad in people. That sometimes wish bad things on people. Getting annoyed by insignificant things and mentally berating people, even loved ones.’

thoughts are fleeting and fickle, changing from day to day, just as we change. What we do is what lasts forever. That’s what makes a difference. You can’t take back what you say or do, but you can allow your thoughts to exist and then let them go. I suppose thoughts are the ghosts of what we do. In some ways they aren’t even real.’