Sometimes, I look back on that winter. The wind was sharp enough to slice through skin, and the whole place felt like it had carved me out of reality and dropped me into another world. When I stepped out into the snowstorm at dawn to buy a parking ticket, I often felt as though I was standing at the end of the earth…

There are things in life we simply have to accept. Just as water doesn’t taste like wine, and straw can’t turn into gold, life flows with an unyielding gravity. Perhaps that’s why we bleed blood instead of wine. Instead of shedding gold, we shed tears. Because this paltry human body could never contain the fullness of a life…

People have an almost exhausting obsession with love. The world is overflowing with love songs, romantic films, and tabloid headlines about who’s dating whom. Even with the same clichés and predictable storytelling, people fall for love again and again, as if they’ve never seen it before…