Clare seemed very distressed. “I’m thirty years old, unemployed and still live at home with my parents. There are only two reasons why I can’t get a job. Either there’s something wrong with the world or there’s something wrong with me. Clearly the world isn’t to blame for where I’m at in life at present, so the problem clearly lies with me. I need fixing. Can you help?”
Wow. I’d only asked her how she was.
Clare had a very black and white view of life – perhaps more so than most of us. But she fell into a trap I believe many of us can fall into.
Believing people can be fixed.
Such people believe there must be a formula. A cure. Some instant solution ...
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