This is Where I Leave You

by Jonathan Tropper

and there’s nothing sweeter than a two-year-old speaking, with his high-pitched sincerity and his immigrant English.

“It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.”

Sometimes, contentment is a matter of will. You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you’ve lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it.