"It’s probably because I’ve reached a certain age when I go to funerals as often as I attend weddings. People around me seem to live an extreme life. They work so hard not realizing that they’re putting themselves at risk. I’ve seen many of them pass away, which got me thinking that death is actually closer than we think."
"I don’t know if it is. When I was younger, I didn’t really get [the idea of a midlife crisis]. Now, I think I partially do. It’s kind of like you achieve a goal and start to wonder what’s next. If you had a child, your goal would be to raise them. But if you didn’t, what would be your next step? How can we rise higher? What else can we do?"
"The meaning of the river flowing is not that all the things are changing, so that we cannot encounter them twice, but that some things stay the same only by changing."