Sightseeing

by Rattawut Lapcharoensap

You grow old thinking you know your kid and then he suddenly starts speaking a foreign language and you never knew him at all.

All human activity suddenly seemed to me composed of such sport: We each chose the game we thought would yield the most for us and our own. We gambled, gambled selfishly, gambled more than we could afford, the odds staggeringly stacked in somebody else’s favor.