If You Could See the Sun

by Ann Liang

self and society are like the sea and the sky—a change in one reflects a change in the other.”

this is my greatest fear; the permanent loss of control, the rest of my life fragmented and ruined, forever at the mercy of those unpredictable flashes of invisibility.

Confusion bubbles inside me. “How—how do you know that?” “I notice,” he says simply.

To live well, you must learn to see yourself first.

I want to laugh until my stomach hurts, and write until I’ve crafted something that delights me, and learn to bask in my small, private victories. Learn to accept that these things, too, are worth wanting.