The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Some days getting up seemed like a bigger commitment than I was ready for. Get up and show up. That’s what you had to do in life.

I didn’t want to admit that I had anger living somewhere inside me. But that anger didn’t make me a “bad boy.” All it did was make me human. There was nothing wrong with getting angry. It was what you did with that anger that mattered.