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“That’s how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.”
Just as you take care of the birds and the fields every morning, every morning I wind my own spring. I give it some thirty-six good twists by the time I’ve gotten up, brushed my teeth, shaved, eaten breakfast, changed my clothes, left the dorm, and arrived at the university. I tell myself, “O.K., let’s make this day another good one.”
“I get hurt,” said Hatsumi. “Why am I not enough for you?”
“Well, what else can they do? We all just keep doing the same things.”
“Don’t feel sorry for yourself,” he said. “Only assholes do that.”
That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have for happiness where you find it, and not worry too much about other people. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a lifetime, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.
