I Think We've Been Here Before

by Suzy Krause

As it turns out, the way to keep sane when the world is ending is the exact same as when it’s not.

At every stage in his life, he’d thought the next one would bring a feeling of having it all figured out, but it only tended to bring a feeling of having more to figure out than he had ever realized.

Hindsight should be completely blind, so you never know what you’ve missed out on.

Like it was only a moment ago and not years. How unfair that time only goes one way, that by the time you understand how much you will miss something, it’s only because you’re already missing it.

“As a difficult choice?” “No, as a choice, period. It’s not a choice. I can’t not come with you, Nora.”

Kids don’t realize how hard it is to be the adult, how courage doesn’t just show up, how life is actually more frightening when you’re older because the stakes get higher and higher. You love more and more people and also understand more fully how fragile and temporary they are.

One of those bittersweet things about motherhood, how those special early memories become so precious to you and lost completely to your child.