I Leave It Up to You

by Jinwoo Chong

Then I’d think to myself that there was more to loving something than smiling at it.

“Guilt is a very important and healthy part of society. All mothers know this.” “I know all mothers know this,” I said. “They’re the reason it’s true.”

If James would only see that one’s own family is the greatest gift of all, that to be with one’s family is the only reason a person should be able to give as to why any of this life is worth living.

will it ever be easier to forgive family for the things they do? Do the lines become clear between the black and the white? And if so, on what side do we come up in the end?

Family is give and take: When you’re born, you take, and when you get older, you give, more and more, to everybody that gave to you. To them.”

“Sometimes you look at me like you expect me to live forever,” he said. “I hate letting you down.”

Time was such a stupid fucking scam. I had wasted so much of it. There wasn’t enough anymore to tell myself that I’d done it well, any of it. What’s one guy against all of that? What’s one guy to try to make sense of all of the things that don’t?