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Michiko Aoyama 1970 yılında Japonya'nın Honshu eyaletinin Aichi vilayetinde doğdu. Üniversiteden sonra, dergi editörü olarak çalışmak üzere Tokyo'ya dönmeden önce Sydney'de bir Japon gazetesinde muhabirlik yaptı. Yokohama, Japonya'da yaşamaktadır.
Unvan:
Japon Yazar
Doğum:
Saitama, Japonya, 9 Haziran 1970
Okurlar
1 okur beğendi.
2 okur okudu.
1 okur okuyor.
3 okur okuyacak.
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Sometimes, though, I think about the future. What will I be doing years from now? I don’t have the same kind of burning desire like I used to when all I wanted was to escape to Tokyo, and I don’t feel excited any more about achieving a goal. That all fizzled away, like froth.
“You managed to find employment, you go to work every day and you can feed yourself. That’s a fine achievement.”
Nobody’s ever summed up my life in this way before. Her answer makes me want to cry. It’s as if she sees me, just as I am.
“But all I do to feed myself is buy stuff from the convenience store,” I blurt out clumsily, though I know that’s not what she really means by “feed yourself.”
Once I made it here, however, I realized what a fantasy world I’d been living in. Tokyo is still a dream, though—I mean, there is always at least one convenience store within five minutes’ walk, and the trains come every three minutes! Plus anything you could possibly want in the way of daily necessities and ready-prepared food is available at your fingertips, at any time. After I’d been accepted for training with Eden, I was assigned to a store just one train stop away from where I was already living.
What am I looking for? I’m looking for... A reason to work, something I’m good at—stuff like that.
When Saya sends a text to tell me she has a new boyfriend, I instantly write back: What’s he like? But all she replies is: He’s a doctor. Nothing about looks or personality, or what kind of doctor he is—I mean, he could be any kind, couldn’t he? It’s true I know what she means by doctor. Jobs can be a clue to somebody’s character. A short-cut way of describing them. But only in a limited, stereotyped sort of way.
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