Mountains and coffee

Before Your Memory Fades is the third book in the series Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. There are four stories of four different people travelling through time. Instead of the café in Tokyo, where the two previous books took place, we are now in the mountains. Through the café, we see the seasons change, with beautiful blossoms, autumn leaves and snow. The book is about being human and the things left unsaid. We as humans have many assumptions about other people and many of them stay unspoken.

A nice, short novel to ponder!

"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 the 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."