Goodbye Tsugumi

by Banana Yoshimoto

“Whenever you get something in this world, you lose something too—that’s just the way things work.

The part of people that feels this kind of loneliness is actually very small, and I think anyone who really tries can get by without suffering from it at all. All you have to do is keep the spotlight turned in some other direction.

Maybe one day our inner workings will get out of sync, it’s true—but even if that’s going to happen, precisely because that might happen, it’s better for us to make lots of good memories for ourselves now, while we can.”