Mai VQ

“It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. Easy to wish we'd developed other other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we'd worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga.
It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do the people we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.
But it is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy.
We can't tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Cuộc đời tôi từ trước tới nay tuy bình thường nhưng không hề phẳng lặng. Tôi cũng có trăn trở, cũng từng vấp ngã, cũng từng chìm sâu xuống đáy biển và không muốn nổi lên. Nhưng giữa đêm đen tĩnh mịch này, tôi cảm nhận rõ ràng hơn bao giờ hết rằng mình may mắn đến nhường nào khi gặp và được bao người giúp đỡ.”
― yagisawa, satoshi

“The only way to learn is to live.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous