Asia House, Oberlin OH

It depends on what you call “living”.

Maybe the world isn’t in a decline, it’s just that the problems have grown more complex, more sophisticated, more widespread, less noticeable. It scares me to think that someday I would decide I want to live my life and betray my dissatisfaction and anger at mankind. To be one of the millions that say nothing and nobody hears, to be one of millions of just ordinary people. Living life just for the material pleasures. How revolting, and here I am in a relationship with Sakuko. Is it doomed because I am? It’s a matter of values, isn’t it? Would to be happy with Sakuko fulfill my criteria for really living? No idea.