A 10 year-old boy from Japan discovered that butterflies can remember their time as caterpillars.
Jo Nagai noticed his caterpillars still loved him after turning into butterflies, and the affection he had for them led to a genuine scientific discovery.
When Carol and Dennis Fitch had to move into assisted living last spring, they found what they believed was a perfect home for their Rottweiler, Bear. Good family. Fenced yard. Eleven miles away. The new family called at 6 a.m. Bear was gone. Carol's granddaughter, Jessica, opened the front door of the old house two hours later and found him there paws bleeding, fur soaked. Veterinarian Dr. Carl Odom said he had likely walked through the night. "Dogs don't rationalize distance," he told the family. "They only understand where they belong."
โIf you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.โ
โ James N. Mattis
The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.