heart is an empty room

Ruth 2022-03-19 09:01:10

The heart is an empty room, and it is not too unbearable to get used to it. What is unbearable is that the room is empty again after it has been filled.
I suddenly thought of an unknown song by Zhou Huajian that I silently liked many years ago: Whenever the song ends, the colorful colors turn gray.
I couldn't help loving this song so many years ago when I hadn't really had a taste of life.
Whatever things move in, will always move out. In the
end, all that's left is loneliness, whether it's accustomed or unbearable.

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  • Narrator: In that place, the boundary between life and death...

    Tony Takitani, Shozaburo Takitani: Was as slim as a single strand of hair.

  • Narrator: He found his home had been destroyed in the firebombing, and his parents and his only brother, lost to the same fate. In other words, he was then... utterly alone in the world.