Fiction: Before Your Memory Fades(Before the Coffee Gets Cold #3)

8.5/10

Dear Readers, 

I think the best way to start is some quotes from the story. 

“Well, surviving alone is much the same as dying alone, don’t you think?” Bro. Actually, an insane concept, but completely true. 

“You should be proud of yourself for sticking with it and never giving up. You were impressive in your persistence. It didn’t happen by magic! Remember when I called out to you on that day? Your life didn’t suddenly transform by itself, did it? None of your problems suddenly fixed themselves, did they? But you looked to the future and persevered. You have what you have today because you never gave up telling yourself that you had to be happy.” Good reminder that life gets hard, and it doesn’t change overnight. It requires work, time, and effort to be fixed and improved. 

“People’s true feelings are not in plain sight. The other person might not be thinking anything, but there is a tendency to just assume what the other is feeling without reaching out and asking.” Ok, don’t call me out like that. It’s rude. 

“Inside every person is an inherent capability to make it through any kind of difficulty. Everyone has that energy. But sometimes when that energy flows via our anxiety valve, the flow can be restricted. The greater that anxiety, the greater the strength needed to open the valve and release the energy. That strength is empowered by hope. You could say that hope is the power to believe in the future.” Interesting way to look at it, almost puts to words that weird anxious feeling. 

“Reiji was now realizing how important the ordinary life that we take for granted is and how much happiness can be experienced from having someone you care about by your side. Things you put off saying until tomorrow are sometimes never said.” It’s not worth not saying it, always say it. 

“Something I strongly believe is that we mustn’t allow the death of a person to be the cause of unhappiness. The reason for that is simple: if we let everyone who dies be a cause for unhappiness, that would mean people are being born to become unhappy. But the opposite in fact is true. People are always born for the sake of happiness.” Life moves on after death, it’s possible. 

This is just some of the many beautiful moments in this edition of the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series. Something I really treasure about this series is its interesting ways of telling you important life lessons and the most quotable lines. 

These short stories about time traveling coffee shops really fuck with my head, because they’ve become of the most tear jerking stuff I’ve ever read. Every single time I think to put this series down, that I’ve had enough, the next book wows me all over again. 

I can’t possibly put into words how amazing these books are, you just have to read them. 

-Grace Sofia