How High We Go in the Dark

by Sequoia Nagamatsu

I stood there debating who she needed me to be at that moment.

I’m happy to give her this gift of a moment, being with her brother.

I could never have imagined the vastness of nothing between the stars, the invisible dark matter that connects everything in the universe like the branches of the nervous system.

He wonders what proportion of happy moments to sad ones is necessary for a person to sincerely want to keep living and hopes he and Yoshiko can get there together.

Follow your happiness wherever it may take you, but remember your family.