Well, we don’t always look for comfort when we read. Sometimes we have to read uncomfortable, difficult books. Sometimes those books are the very ones that inform our intellectual and emotional growth.
It’s her job to be in charge, but who is she trying to fool? She went to high school and college and then…here, so what life has she lived that means she can tell us the right way to live ours? She’s always been in school.
I grit my teeth. Adults never tell you the truth about anything, anyway.