Too many good things all seem the same after a while.

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

How I saw in her my own true nature. What was beneath my skin. Inside my bones... Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain. This is how a daughter honors her mother. It is shou so deep it is in your bones. The pain of the flesh is nothing. The pain you must forget. Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother before her. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.

And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don't know why something that made me so happy then feels so sad now. Maybe that is the way it is with the best memories.

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.

Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.

The life we receive is not always what we choose.