A second chance.
That was what I wished for.
The one thing I prayed for every night before I sleep. The one thing I prayed for, at the very night before I woke up in an entirely different life.
A new life.
My second chance.
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I was 30 years old wh...
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Song Companion: Teflon Sega - No Turning Back
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—First life, year 2005—
My parents loved to take me on car rides ever since I was a little boy.
They had always said it was one of the easiest ways they had found that could calm me down from what they called as 'one of my moods'—whatever that meant.
In a way, car rides had always felt comforting. It was better to be stuck in a car instead of staying at home, where it felt stuffy and lonely, even if my parents would only drive around the neighbourhood instead of taking me anywhere far. It was still better because looking out the car window allowed me to see everything—the trees we passed by, the land around us and the mountains in the distance—and they were all still better to look at compared to the sight that I could see out my bedroom window. Nothing but the neighbours' rusty walls and the empty lot behind our house that neighbourhood kids would use to hang out at. Sometimes, my parents would even drive all the way to the next town. Or even further to the next, in which we would stay a bit longer at instead of heading back to where we had taken off from earlier that same morning.
It wasn't until when I was a bit older when I finally understood what it had truly meant to be driving so far and why my parents would pack up various boxes when we were off to travel somewhere. That sometimes when my father said, "Let's go for a drive," it would not always mean that he was talking about driving around the neighbourhood to go sightseeing.
