I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might resemble my stepping into the kitchen - into its soft nowhere quality and foggy hum. I breathed the dark air. If I had at that moment a sense of calm kindly death while my heart beat and my lungs expanded, he might know a similar sense of life in the middle of his ongoing death. Michael Cunningham
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An old man is sitting at home, feeling lonely and wishing that he has a son who is also living in the same house. One day he gets the opportunity to meet his son, who is now an old man. The father feels so much joy to see his son after so many years, but he realizes that his son has not lived the life that he had once hoped for him to have. He regrets not being there for his brother when his brother was alive, and he regrets not being there for his brother for the last moments of his life.

While they are conversing, their conversation takes them into the kitchen of their house. As they are walking through the kitchen, they are able to see the way their house used to look like when they were young. Their father tells his son how much he misses him and how much he wishes that he could have done more to make him happy while he’s still alive.

The father doesn’t want to see him die without living life fully because his brother had lived life fully until the end of it.

Source: A Home At The End Of The World

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