A reminder of what they don't have... Maybe that is the problem, at that. Dazai wouldn't put it that way, because he'd claim never having had that elusive something in the first place - which is partly true, but mostly a matter of attitude. Even Dazai can't deny the power of nostalgia, and the way it makes people dumb.
Maybe that's why he hates it: he doesn't want to admit how everything halfway decent ends up looking like diamonds in retrospect, because that means admitting that the precious moments in those boring days weren't real - or at least that he looks back on them with rose-tinted glasses.]
"Always"... Don't act like it happens that often, Chuuya!
[It... kind of does, though......]
I won't. If it's something a coffee shop can pick up, it's not going to be strong enough anyway, right? I'd just give myself heartburn.
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A reminder of what they don't have... Maybe that is the problem, at that. Dazai wouldn't put it that way, because he'd claim never having had that elusive something in the first place - which is partly true, but mostly a matter of attitude. Even Dazai can't deny the power of nostalgia, and the way it makes people dumb.
Maybe that's why he hates it: he doesn't want to admit how everything halfway decent ends up looking like diamonds in retrospect, because that means admitting that the precious moments in those boring days weren't real - or at least that he looks back on them with rose-tinted glasses.]
"Always"... Don't act like it happens that often, Chuuya!
[It... kind of does, though......]
I won't. If it's something a coffee shop can pick up, it's not going to be strong enough anyway, right? I'd just give myself heartburn.