Istanbul mosques are the best. I walked into a big one and immediately saw kids playing hide and seek, some dude sleeping, another guy praying and another guy doing push ups while his friends watched.
The program director of my previous University was a huge Murakami loather. Her main focus of research was in literature. Sheβd openly express that she couldnβt understand the rave for a man who can only write women as objects and never as characters of their own. Iconic.
turns out, reading a lot, exercising, loving people without expecting anything back, protecting your alone time, focusing only on improving yourself, and sometimes staying out late with friends who make you laugh until it hurts is a pretty good way to live.
iβm convinced that creativity is the elixir of life. not ambition. not productivity. but the simple act of making. the devotion to beauty. the refusal to go numb.
you read a woman japanese author and you are utterly stunned by the intensity of every single emotion she portrays and how her womanhood aligns with yours in striking ways then u read a male japanese author, it's only chapter three and he's talking abt a woman's bouncing tits