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“Because life isn’t lived as a whole. You aren’t given a hundred years all at once. Time is doled out one very manageable second at a time. Stop looking at the big picture and find happiness in the seconds.”
A camera could capture a million different emotions. But only one at a time. One second. One snap. One memory forever frozen in time.
As a family, it was our final second untouched by such brutal violence and staggering fear. And it was beautiful. My parents hadn’t lived their lives trembling because of what could have happened to them. They’d lived their lives for moments like that picture.
When I was ten, the death of my mother had changed my life. A few years later when I was fifteen, a single bullet had changed my life again. At twenty-nine, a shrill cry from an abandoned newborn had flipped my life on end. But at thirty-three years old, in the middle of a quiet diner, Hadley Banks changed my life all over again.
