âWe live in ignorance of what the next second holds. There are things beyond our control that come to us unbidden. In those moments, anxieties that multiply endlessly cause us to imagine fearful scenarios. Even though these are stories of our own fabrication, we are threatened by them as if they were immutable futures handed down to us by someone.
But in reality, none of that exists. The only things that I know exist for certain, here and now, are the breathing me, the smiling Maco, and the blooming cherry blossoms.â
- Hot Chocolate on Thursday by Michiko Aoyoma
















