Recursion

by Blake Crouch

“Because memory…is everything.

He has wondered lately if that’s all living really is—one long goodbye to those we love.

“Life with you isn’t a life ruined.”

“My soul knows your soul. In any time.”

Life with a cheat code isn’t life. Our existence isn’t something to be engineered or optimized for the avoidance of pain. That’s what it is to be human—the beauty and the pain, each meaningless without the other.