Here and Now and Then

by Mike Chen

But then I remember that we’re all different people all through our lives, but that’s okay, as long as you remember all the people you used to be.

Somehow, he’d mistaken her being good at something for really wanting to do it.

And if he was going to fail, at least this let him fail heading in the right direction instead of running away.

“Look, it’s possible to start over. Completely over. You survive, you adapt. You can find love and be happy and live. You can do that while still honoring your past—even when your past is taken from you. The only thing you can do is run with it and turn it into something good.”