Ali Roff
PHOTOGRAPH: LAURA RICHARDSON
Over the past year, in this column and my own life, I’ve challenged every place in which the word ‘should’ comes up, and so many of you have joined me; messaging me on Instagram or via email to say how much you resonate with the pressures you feel to follow a path that’s set out for us by society, the media and the generations before us. From careers and relationships, to our mental health, together we’ve stared our ‘shoulds’ dead in the eye and observed how the pressure to conform to an idea of how things should be actually holds us back from the things we want or need to create in our lives.