He is too funny.
And I confess I did send him a question but he has not answered… Maybe it was too difficult a question I posed or that there is no answer.
This is not very profound but funny – as in humorous – immature “princess” hangup she needs to grow up from:)but we all had this kind of selfishness growing up I think. In fact, some grown adults still confuse the definition of love as has Midori:
“I guess I’ve been waiting so long I’m looking for perfection. That makes it tough.”
“Waiting for the perfect love?”
“No, even I know better than that. I’m looking for selfishness. Perfect selfishness.
Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. And you stop everything you’re doing and run out and buy it for me. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me.
And I say I don’t want it anymore and throw it out the window. That’s what I’m looking for.”
“I’m not sure that has anything to do with love,” I said with some amazement.
“It does,” she said. “You just don’t know it. There are time in a girl’s life when things like that are incredibly important.”
“Things like throwing strawberry shortcake out the window?”
“Exactly. And when I do it, I want the man to apologize to me. “Now I see, Midori. What a fool I have been! I should have known that you would lose your desire for strawberry shortcake. I have all the intelligence and sensitivity of a piece of donkey shit. To make it up to you, I’ll go out and buy you something else. What would you like? Chocolate Mousse? Cheesecake?”
“So then what?”“So then I’d give him all the love he deserves for what he’s done.”
“Sounds crazy to me.”
“Well, to me, that’s what love is…”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
I think this passage got my attention only because I have sworn off sugar for this month – strawberry shortcake, chocolate mousse, cheesecake? ahhhh… off-limit foods…Tapas for the month… it’s hard to give up sweets. But having come back from Tokyo, I have decided to offset the indulges – my mother has sweet tooth. Wanted to make her? happy so I probably shared a manju and wagashi, yougashi, everyday at tea time… photos to follow.
