"I'm breaking generational curses!"
If only Do you have a girlfriend/boyfriend at school? was replaced with, Do you have an idea for a game kids your age could play?
If only Girls don't dress like that was replaced with, What was your inspiration for your outfit?
If only When are you getting married? was replaced with, When are you starting your own business?
If only you recognised your own discomforts and not disrupt my comforts.
If only you had made different choices instead of criticising mine.
If only we were not constantly compared to someone you thought was doing better than us.
If only we were praised for thinking outside of the box and not criticised for it.
If only Creativity was praised as much as marriage in our society.
If only the expectation to break generational curses didn't rest solely on our generations' shoulders.
If only you would let us break these generational curses instead of telling us how to break them.
If only you didn't comply with or possibly create those generational curses.
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If only we stopped trying to 'break generational curses'
If only we stopped making it a fashionable term.
If only we stopped calling them curses.
If only we stopped...
If only...
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What a good read.
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