The Deep

by Nick Cutter

Your child doesn’t owe you loyalty or obedience. You owe your child love and understanding, owe it unconditionally, and if you love them strongly enough, eventually that love may be returned.

So many people just don't get this.

Luke’s own mother had never seen it that way. She thought Luke and Clay owed her love regardless of how she treated them.

Hits hard.

The world did not hold to any standard of fairness that Luke could comprehend. All his life stood testament to that. Good men

die in wretched agony and bad men die happily in their beds. Creatures live and die never knowing love.

About winning, mainly. But that’s not it. It’s about the trying. The not-giving-up. We’re all going to lose. So it’s about losing and going on, keep going on, even though you

lose again and again. You may never win, buddy, not at some things. So it’s about working as hard as you can, every day, to find your spot on the mountain. And then it’s about being okay with where you are so that you can get some enjoyment out of that, and out of the things in life that are more important than whatever place you end up on that silly old mountain, anyway. Zachary