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I shouldn’t have said it. But all I want to do when I’m angry is stab the deepest wound I can find.
Life is always like that—you don’t know when you’ll suddenly claw your way out of your circumstances, or when you’ll go crashing back down into them.
A sheen of cold sweat covers my entire body. In my next life, I’m going to be an accountant.
We fight for survival with everything we’ve got, as if the oxygen mask and the seat belt and avoidance of a square of chocolate cake might be the thing that saves us.
“You are forever a piece of my story. I couldn’t turn my back on you without turning my back on myself. I had to try.” My quiet words hang in the air. “I had to hold out my hand to you.”
“You told me you never wanted to see me again,” I manage to say. His voice is low and raw. “Because every time I see you, it takes everything in me to turn away.”
“I know you’re with Kento now. I know he’s better than me in every way. But I’m thinking that, even though there’s no one in my family willing to wait around for me, even though you’re the only one in here, I couldn’t care less, because you might as well be the entire damn world.”
And that’s when I realize that, at the end, we’d all wish for the same thing. Just a little more time.
Maybe I should feel like a hero. But I don’t. It’s always easier to destroy than to create.
Once technology has been made, it cannot be unmade.
Just because the system was flawed doesn’t mean it isn’t worth existing. Like anything else, it’s a tool that depends on those who use it.
Every problem has a solution. But after every solution, there’s a new problem to tackle, some new challenge to take on. You don’t stop after you solve one thing. You keep going, you find a new way and a new path, try to do better and create better. Tearing something down isn’t the end; doing something great, or better, something right, is. Or maybe there isn’t such a thing as an end goal at all. You accomplish something, and then you shift, ready to accomplish the next. You keep solving one problem after another until you change the world.
And even though no one is perfect, it doesn’t mean we don’t listen. Become better. There are a million good things left to do,
It’s the creator’s gleam, that magical thing that keeps you awake at night, wide-eyed with potential and promise.
