How High We Go in the Dark

by Sequoia Nagamatsu

“And remember,” the voice said, “what is laughter but a moment of release where pain and memory are washed away? When we laugh, we are stronger. When we laugh, we heal the world.”

“Opportunities are like little seeds floating in the wind. Your life is there. Some people have a big net to collect them all. Other people need to pray that the right seeds, the best ones, make their way to them with just enough bad ones to appreciate the good.”

He wonders what proportion of happy moments to sad ones is necessary for a person to sincerely want to keep living

sometimes people and places serve a purpose for a finite amount of time to help you think and grow and love and then you move on.

My father used to say our planet and everyone on it was made of pure possibility and that’s what made us special, made us able to create, become anything we wanted.