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is so easy to let fear overwhelm you in this world. If you look at things in a particular way, it is always possible to see the fear or the danger in them. But what that really means is that if you look at those things in another particular way, it is possible to see the goodness and the possibilities in things instead. And not just in things, but people too.
“Hugo Boss,” said Joe without humor (because none was intended) and saluted again.
“Well, I suppose…,” said Janet, hesitating. “I suppose that at the end of a life, after all the lovely words have been said in the eulogy, people tend to whittle down the lives of others into a few words, maybe a sentence or two. They are words that tell the world how they should be remembered.”
In life, love is the important thing. At the end, if you have loved and been loved, then that’s what you want to share with the world.”
So, to start with, we just see the person as they are, as they present themselves, and start with learning something simple—like their name—and gradually get to know all the different things about them.”
sometimes we just have to do things that make us feel a bit uncomfortable, if other people’s needs are greater.”
Allow your routines and habits to act like scaffolding, to hold you up and keep you strong, but remember that scaffolding is the support for something you are trying to build, it is not the building itself.
Joe realized that a life is lived differently when there is someone there to witness it.
“I think you think of the place that a person belongs as being a place they have already found. Your home, your mum and dad, they were always something you could go back to. Not everyone has that. The place a person belongs might be in their future; they might not have found it yet. Might not ever find it.”
Sometimes the place we belong is just about the people in our lives, not the actual place. Sometimes the place we belong is just the place where the people who love us hang out.”
He was a happy man. A man who had the best kind of nuthin, and the best kind of everything: no mean bones, and six good friends.
