Genki Kawamura

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.”

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. Even happiness is built on someone else’s misfortune.

Being such a slave to it made me hate myself.

Mobile phones have been around for only about twenty years, but in just that short time they’ve managed to take complete control over us.

When human beings invented the mobile phone, they also invented the anxiety of not having one.

Throughout human history we’ve given birth to new things, only to lose the old.