You Then, Me Now

by Nick Alexander

‘Unless you’re God and you know everything, including the past and the future, most of life is pretty much a question of closing your eyes and stabbing at a map. You have to try not to give yourself a hard time when things turn out to be not as good as you’d hoped.’

‘Sometimes the worst things make the best things happen,’ Leif said.

‘I often think nice is underrated these days,’ Anita said. ‘Do you know what I mean? We value cleverness and intelligence and strength. Money, too. But nice is incredibly special. And it’s not so easy to be this way all the time, you know? Other people are very difficult. It takes a lot of effort to understand them and stay nice despite everything.’