the promise of the tea-gods43mistake. The best I can do—the best any of us can do—is to try not tomake the same mistake again.”“You didn’t do anything wrong. Please don’t say that.”“If I didn’t do anything wrong, you wouldn’t have deleted me fromyour friends list. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure thatout. Something, somehow, went terribly wrong. So, here are ourchoices: You can blame me, or I can blame you, or we can both just letit go.” Standing up and stepping off the low rock into the sand, sheadded, “It’s a beautiful day. Walk with me?”He slid off the rock and landed beside her. “I’d love to walk withyou, but please don’t turn things around like that. What you did wassend me a birthday card. What I did was delete it and you. What you didwas kind. What I did was heartless.”They walked along the shore—K’s feet splashing through the swirling tide as it met the golden sand. She bent down and picked up a shell,then turned it around in her hands. Finally, she said, “Perhaps this is ourtime to learn about being ‘only human’ and to accept the things we dothat only humans do. We’re all just walking along a road, and what matters most is that we keep going—trusting that when we look back, everymisstep we’ve ever taken will have become a beautiful footprint we’veleft upon the world.”“That’s a very poetic way to look at things, but I never want to findmyself on the road of being only human. It’s a pathetic way to live.”“No one walks a road they’ve already mastered. So if we’re on it,there must be something to learn.”“I seriously doubt that anyone learns anything from being only human. It’s just another lame excuse for being irresponsible. And if I don’ttake responsibility for my own bad choices—for any stupid decisionsI’ve made—then I’ll never improve.”“It’s not about improving, Soo-kang. It’s about trusting that even ourmissteps make us more.”“I have no idea what that means.”She looked at him as if she had a secret to tell. “Of course you don’t,”she said gently.
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