The Good Part

by Sophie Cousens

I don’t think I understood the meaning of the word independence until I had dependents.

Is that what life is—missing out in your twenties because you have no money, then missing out in your forties because you have no time?

“Do you think memories make us who we are, Michael?” “No,” he says firmly. “Who we are is our code of morals, the things we stand for, not our ability to recall the past.”