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was so angry I couldn’t bear to wait around for the train and listen to these two guys go on any longer, so I decided to head home on foot and take my sweet time to get back to my apartment. Once I reached home, I clattered up the stairs and opened the cardboard-thin door to the cramped little space that I called home. It was then that the realization of the utter hopelessness of my situation finally caught up with me. The outlook was bad. I mean literally, for I couldn’t see a thing all of a sudden, and then I fainted right there on the doorstep.
Is he always this angsty or just now post diagnosis?
When you think about it, that’s not such a terrible thing, especially when it comes to cell phones! Lately it seemed like I was messing around on my stupid phone all the time, from the moment I got up in the morning to just before bedtime. I didn’t make any time for reading books
Okay boomer
There are so many cruel things in the world,” he once told us. “But there are also just as many beautiful things.”
There's a lot of mention of balance and karma
It was then that it hit me: the undeniable, tangible feeling that someone I knew had died, that I’d lost someone I had grown close to. Tom was dead and we would never see him again. No more talking late into the night, drinking red wine, or enjoying meals together. It was the first time the finality of death had really hit home for either of us, and so she started to cry there in that place.
Understanding finality
As we sat there in silence for twenty-six hours, I think we both knew that this was the end of us. Our relationship was over. How strange it was that we had both felt like we were meant to be together, and yet both of us could see that the end was clearly coming.
Was Tom's death the catalyst? Understanding finality make them want to life everyday to the fullest or something like that?
I wondered whether Tom had actually made it there, or if he died before getting a chance to see
Well he saw Jesus right after anyway after he died so yolo
That’s why I told you everything I didn’t like about you today. Now you know everything that’s wrong with you before you die,
That’s it! I thought. Her favorite place. This is her favorite place. Right here. The movie theater!
Dude I knew that, learn to pay attention, maybe thats why you broke up. You're selfish and self centered.
With my own life hanging in the balance, I started to wonder whether I might actually be worth less than a jellyfish.
Not less than A jellyfish but certainly less than ALL jellyfish
if all movies disappeared, would it feel as if a part of me had disappeared along with them?
It’s a real loss, an emptiness that’s created. It’s so small you could miss it,
We haven’t heard others acknowledge the disappearing phones, would people acknowledge movies?
If I robbed all of these people of something that matters so much to them, it would be like I was committing a crime.
Finally thinking of someone who isn’t you
He lives for films and is probably the biggest movie geek on earth.
And you’re taking this away tour one day of living? One day that you spend stressed about what to make disappear next? Pathetic
I realized, most people who say that they’re movie buffs are really just fakes.
Let people enjoy things
It’s the future you’ll never get to see that you really regret missing most of all when you die.
But there was nothing there but a blank space, a rectangle of white light illuminating the screen. I had chosen nothing.
My father is out of the picture at this point.
Why did he cut ties with his father in the most tragic time of his life
that during the sad scenes, upbeat music should play in the background.
Why?
was sad because I was going to die or if I was sad because something really important and meaningful was about to disappear from the world.
He doesn’t view himself as important and meaningful
“You only realize what the really important things are once you’ve lost them.”
world with no movies and where cats talk was not a world I wanted to wake up in.
Whose fault is that
shop. You see, my father ran a small clock shop.
Why is he removing the only three things those whom he cares about loves? Clocks, movies, I guess phones was a little different because his ex didn’t care for them but she did love movies
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.
As I stroked his warm, furry body, I decided to ask Cabbage, “Do you know what love is?” “No, sir, what’s that?”
What makes you think cats don’t experience love?
I’ve never cried at a book before and I’m sobbing in public right now
One thing you realize when you’ve lived with a cat for a long time is that you may think that you own them, but that’s not really the way it is. Cats simply allow us the pleasure of their company.”
“That shouldn’t be such a hard choice, should it? After all, if you’re not around, who would take care of the cat? This is an easy choice.”
His ex girlfriend would take care of Cabbage
“Oh, don’t worry about that. You’re here and that makes me happy. There are different ways of showing someone you love them, you know.”
passed. When he arrived, he was holding Mom’s wristwatch in his hands. He hadn’t been able to get it going again.
Her wristwatch gave out at the same time her body did
while the only thing Dad seemed to care about was repairing her watch.
Maybe by fixing the watch he thought he would fix her, or that if the watch was able to still tick then she wasn’t really gone. The narrator is just too self centered to see the way other people express their relationships
“You know, your mother was really incredible. She just knew things. It was like she had magical powers or something,”
“Yeah, but just being alive doesn’t mean all that much on its own. How you live is more important.”
“So you see, the form I take really depends on your imagination. The devil in your heart looks just like you.”
“I’m the side of yourself that you’ve never shown to the world.
Humans tend to regret the life they never lived and the choices they never made.”
Hard to believe, I know. But it’s kind of like what happened to Adam and Eve.
Instead I decided that I would cease to exist.
Well he was removing objects from the world but with cats he would be removing living beings so maybe it was also a sort of moral situation as well
stared at it for a long time and hesitated over opening
Scared of regretting his decision to die?
Since you were the one who named Cabbage, it only feels natural that I should leave him with you, Dad.
