It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.

I felt foolish and tired, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind to discover there was no one there.

To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing. -Jing-mei

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.

Over time, passion wanes, differences don't.