I realized I was wrong. I’d wanted someone to ask me about it. I’d wanted someone to console me. I’d wanted someone to take care of me.
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but I couldn’t remain dependent on others forever. If I did, I would never grow up. My heart would always be weak. I was convinced that if I didn’t leave, I would never be able to start over.
Maybe the reason my uncle was always clowning around in front of people was to hide what he was feeling from them.
“It was time to stop shutting myself up in a cage. It was time to get moving, to look around, and learn what I could from it all. Time to go in search of a place where I belonged, a place where I could say with confidence that I felt right. All the trips I went on, all the books I read, were the consequences of that decision. In other words, Takako, meeting you led me to a kind of epiphany.”
“Tomo, how did you get so into books?”
She answered me in that same gentle voice. “That’s a good question.
When I was in middle school, I was painfully shy. I had this fear of telling people what I thought. And because of that there were just these terrible feelings rumbling around inside me. I was carrying around this awful shame. That’s when I read the copy of Osamu Dazai’s Schoolgirl. That’s how it started for me. Now I’m basically totally addicted to reading.”