If Cats Disappeared From the World

Like love, life is beautiful because it has to end.

But one small morsel of pain remained. Just one little regret. And that is the feeling that if we had just had our phones with us on that flight back to Japan, maybe, just maybe we could have talked about our feelings and wouldn’t have had to break up. Monopoly was over, but maybe we could have tried a new game.

Before, I would hold him and pet him without thinking about it much, but now, for the first time, it occurred to me that this is what life was all about.

“There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.”

There’s something just as inevitable as death. And that’s life

In order to gain something you have to lose something.”

“In order to gain something you have to lose something.”

Like love, life is beautiful because it has to end

Love has to end. That’s all. And even though everyone knows it they still fall in love.

I guess it’s the same with life. We all know it has to end someday, but even so we act as if we’re going to live forever. Like love, life is beautiful because it has to end

There was a good chance I’d got the time wrong