The Girl in the Tree

by Şebnem İşigüzel

Being told to bow down to someone else’s wishes is a guaranteed recipe for exasperation, and revolt is the natural response.

If anyone aside from your mother says to you, “I’m telling you this for your own good,” you can be sure that whatever they’re going to say is most certainly not in your best interests, so don’t listen to a word of it.

“You can’t live in the moment because you’re always thinking about tomorrow.”