Warm Days Ahead

(The Tatami Galaxy) 

四畳半神話大系; Yojōhan Shinwa Taikei, 4.5 Tatami Mythological Chronicles

"If I can become a circle with you….Farewell triangle; I’ll come back sometime, square. Circle x triangle… always a dead space. The world tends to 4 sides, 4 faces, 5 sides, 6 sides, Turkey (sounds similar to a 7) Search for the circle … Search for the circle… To learn how not to become a circle...It might be nowhere. It might be somewhere. You don’t know either… On this Kamo River. Search for the circle… Search for the circle." (Maru O Sagashite; The Tatami Galaxy; S1 Ep. 4)

"There is no such thing as that rose-colored campus life. Why? Because this world is not a single-colored rose! Everything is all a bunch of mixed-up colors, you see!” (Higuchi Seitarou; The Tatami Galaxy; S1 Ep. 9)

Surely, the times are tough and we feel vulnerable, at-risk and collapsing both physically and mentally. The firm command over speech and holding a dialogue seems to become dull with every passing day. The familiar now feel mundane to a point where our senses are asking of us to expose and pollute them with sensations of both, worst and pretty good. Thoughts are recycling and its manifestations are clearly on a repetition that seems to be infinite. One feels entitled not to life but to happiness and of course, a swift smoothness that carries winds of certainty. When things don’t go the way of how one envisions life, everything turns acerbic gradually turning everything from bitter to utterly hopeless. The world then is no longer seen as a colorful wonderland rather it become purely dull and gray. Our quest to search for an ideal life never ends and this succinctly points out the growing decay that exponentially increases in abundance. We are not left with any hope but a grim patch of green grass that is waiting to dry out on a barren field. The brilliant show points out that you can live a myriad of eternities and still turn out unsatisfied and hollow. The remedy is simple yet not so easy to implement, in the end, the idea is not to solve but to accept that a circle (you) cannot coerce itself to fit inside a triangle or a square. Stay the circle. Stay alive. Breathe. It will be fine.