having an office job is great for forgetting your big existential problems, getting washed away by the tedium of the everyday. i want to be furious when someone forgets to send me the excel file by 3pm, that's how i know i'm centered in this mortal plane
Yuko Tsushima taught me motherhood, Banana Yoshimoto helped me thru grief, Mieko Kawakami showed me the depth of loneliness, Sayaka Murata explored alienation that I can relate, Nastuko Imamura taught me being different is okay, Yoko Ogawa let me embrace the childhood's innocence
thanks to the internet, we are no longer bound to the beliefs of our native cultures. it’s liberating. but it might be the reason why we every country is so polarised now