RULE TO BREAK

“The world is against you”

Listen, we all get good breaks and bad breaks. People treat us badly, or we get lucky and they spoil us. We all have great teachers, rubbish friends, tricky mums or dads, difficult siblings, supportive adults when we’re growing up … a whole mishmash of influences. Sure, on balance some of us get luckier than others, but we all have negative stuff to contend with. And positive stuff to contend with too.

Once you’ve left home, however, it’s down to you – whoever you are. You can’t go around blaming other people for all the bits of your life that aren’t how you’d like them to be. It’s not your parents’ fault, or your school’s, or anyone else’s. Maybe it was, when you were a little kid, but not any more. ...

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