Genki Kawamura

“In order to gain something you have to lose something.”
Mom said it was just obvious. People are always trying to get something for nothing. But that’s just theft. If you’ve gained something it means that someone, somewhere, has lost something.

“There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.”
That’s a line from The Matrix.

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

“Cats and humans have been partners for over ten thousand years. And what you realize when you’ve lived with a cat for a long time is that we may think we own them, but that’s not the way it is. They simply allow us the pleasure of their company.”

And if I disappeared from the world? Well, I suppose nothing would change at all. Things would probably just go on, day after day . . . same as usual.

The fact is, people tend to be surprisingly calm when they hear news like this.

In order to gain something you have to lose something.”

Maybe that’s what’s driven all human progress: an insatiable desire for new things.

Something about all this made me feel like I’ve been lucky to have lived after all.

The sneezing just wouldn’t stop. For a whole month the tears and sniffling went on and on, but she never considered giving the cat away.

“I can’t let him go—he chose me.”

“In order to gain something you have to lose something.”