Heart over Mind
“I know you must feel depressed about your beloved woman getting pregnant with a baby that doesn’t belong to you. Still, what’s done is done, and there’s nothing you can do to change it. Why did you have to numb yourself with something like this?”
“Something like what?”
Danielle pointed at the cigarette butt on the ground, “When my mother depression was at its most severe, she would smoke three or four packs of cigarettes every day. She tells me that smoking can make her forget the pain, even if just for a moment, but all it did was fill our house with the smell of smoke.
“Seeing other people smoking always reminds me of how decrepit my mother looked. If you’re going to keep smoking, do it s