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When human beings invented the mobile phone, they also invented the anxiety that comes with not having one on you.
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.
People forgot what it meant to be kept waiting. That feeling of unbearable impatience at not being able to get ahold of her, mixed with the warm feeling of hope and the shivering cold, was still fresh in my mind.
The process reminded me a bit of gift giving. It’s not so much the object you’re giving that you’re excited about, but the
look on the recipient’s face and how happy they’ll be once they open it.
when a person talks about something they really love, there’s a kind of thrill to listening to them.
It’s the future you’ll never get to see that you really regret missing most of all when you die.
It’s because of you and all we’ve done together that gave my life meaning.”
What did I gain by growing up, and what did I lose? I know the answer to only the second part of that question. Innocence—all those precious hopes and dreams that you can only have when you’re in your adolescence.
“You only realize what the really important things are once you’ve lost them.”
With freedom comes uncertainty, insecurity, and anxiety. Human beings exchanged their freedom for the sense of security that comes from living by set rules and routines—despite knowing that they pay the cost of these rules and regulations with their freedom.
If only I’d stopped for a moment to get some perspective, away from all that running around I was doing, it would have been obvious what the most important thing was, and which of those phone calls I needed to make (if any) really mattered.
With family you tend to take for granted the fact that they’ll always be there and that you’ll figure out how to get along somehow.
You don’t have a family. You make a family.
As you go on with your life, always remember the things that are good in you. They are your gifts. As long as you have these things, you’ll find happiness, and you’ll make the people around you happy. Thank you for everything you’ve done for me. And good-bye. I hope you never forget that these things are the things that make you special.
My mother … I wondered, did she have any time to herself? Did she have any hobbies of her own? Were there things she wanted to do, hopes and dreams she held on to? I always wanted to thank her properly for all she’d done for, but never found the words.
“Yeah, but just being alive doesn’t mean all that much on its own. How you live is more important.”
Humans tend to regret the life they never lived and the choices they never made.”
