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“Had I done anything significant during my thirty-year existence? Had I spent time with the people I really wanted to spend time with? Had I said all that needed to be said to the people who mattered?”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“What will they talk about? What memories will they share as they gather around my casket?

Thinking about this I started to wonder. What had I given to the people around me while I was alive? What would I be leaving behind? My whole life will be summed up in those moments that I won't be around to see — the time after I'm dead. In all the thirty years I'd been alive this was the first time I'd ever thought about this. My whole existence had taken place within this little sliver of time that sat between two much larger chunks of time — during which I didn't exist. It's been within this narrow slice that I have made my mark... for whatever it's worth.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“As you go on with your life, always remember the things that are good in you. They're your gifts.

As long as you have these things, you'll find happiness, and you'll make the people around you happy. Thank you for everything you've done for me. And goodbye. I hope you always keep hold of these things that are so beautiful about you.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“My whole life up to this point, I'd faced what I thought was an infinite tomorrow. But once I discovered that my life would indeed end, it felt more like the future was coming to meet me. Now I found myself heading toward a future that was set in stone. At least, that's how I felt.

How ironic. For the first time in my life I was taking a long hard look at my future, but only after being told that I didn't have long to live.

The right side of my head began to hurt and I was finding it difficult to breathe.

I didn't want to die yet. I wanted to go on living.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World