If Cats Disappeared from the World

by Genki Kawamura

God created the world in seven days.”

“In order to gain something, you have to lose something,” she always said.

I wonder why people always expect from others things that they themselves can’t or won’t do.

“There are so many cruel things in the world,” he once told us. “But there are also just as many beautiful things.”

I must have a whole collection of small injuries, tucked away somewhere in the recesses of my memory. I suppose those are what some people call regrets.

I guess it’s the same with life. We all know it has to end someday, but even so, we act as if we’re going to live forever. Like love, life is beautiful because it must come to an end.

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long shot.”