How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
I did not lose myself all at once.
Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.
Yet part of me also thinks the whole idea makes perfect sense. The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on the plane together, sitting side by side, lifting off, moving West to reach the East.
On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.