MILLIE, 16 YEARS
OLD, MANCHESTER
D ear Ellen
I am 16 years old and I have a problem with
my parents. They are too oppressive! I don’t
have the freedom to decide my own future!
They say I have to study something
important, a big degree that will help me
have a safe job. They want me to become a
doctor.
I don’t want to be someone that I don’t want
to be, or do something that I don’t like or
that it doesn’t make me happy. It’s unfair!
I want to study music! That’s what I really
like and what really makes me happy
Can you help me?
ELLEN
D ear Millie,
First, you have to be happy! Not everyone
can have such a good and expensive
degree. I’m sure doing what you want to do,
you’ll be good at it.
Second, your parents want you to have a
good life with a job that compensates you
with a lot of money, you can also think that
it is a job to save lives! That’s really great.
Why don’t you try to talk with your parents,
and you tell them what really makes you
happy? If music makes you happy, then
fight to be the best musician in the world!
Doing whatever you want to do, I’m sure
your parents will support you and they
always will be proud of you!
Ellen
By: Jana
Gallifa