The Wrong Side and The Right Side

“I was placed at an equal distance from misery and the sun.”

Growing up in a house without books or toys changes how you see the sun. Poverty made the world feel more beautiful to him. He found a strange kind of freedom in having nothing.

His grandmother used a whip to keep order in the house. It shows how love and violence can get tangled up when people are just trying to survive. You can still love someone who hurt you.

“The only thing she had ever been given was a grave.”

The story of the old woman buying her own tombstone is haunting. She wanted to own something permanent before she died. Even a grave can feel like a luxury when you have lived with nothing.

“The mother is silent. The son is silent.”

Watching his mother sit in silence for hours felt heavy. She didn't have words for her life. Sometimes the deepest parts of us are just quiet and unreachable.