This is the Sunday edition, but today I'm writing about a slightly heavy topic.
So if it's not your cup of tea, feel free to skip it.
I'll post about some lovely chocolate later.
It should be up around 5 PM.
In Japan, the most representative February event is Valentine's Day.
This is an occasion where people give chocolate to those they like, completely unrelated to Saint Valentine.
It was created by confectionery companies, but it's now a February event known by the entire nation.
When I was a child, this finally became established in society, but it's truly troublesome. From kindergarteners to high schoolers, Japan lacks a steady culture (meaning becoming a couple here), so the entire class or school deliberately teases two people in a one-sided or mutual crush, treating it as childish.
It's horrific harassment, isn't it?
I also believe this is a malicious form of lynching unique to people who insist childishness is pure.
Honestly, during my sensitive junior high years, I became the subject of school rumors, and I hated it intensely.
People who weren't involved would get excited for no reason, count down to February 14th, run around making strange noises and teasing others—it was utterly childish. They'd silently coerce other students who didn't join in by hinting, “If you don't participate, we'll exclude you.” Regardless of whether it was true or not, they'd throw the two people caught in this delicate situation into it,
They'd create an atmosphere forcing someone to say, “Stop it, I hate that guy,” or make someone else say, “Stop it, I like someone else,” forcing them to say hurtful things they didn't mean, all because they couldn't stand being teased.
Even back then, everyone except the teasing fools knew the truth: neither of them had done anything wrong. They would regret forcing those words out for decades afterward, constantly feeling sorry for the other and ashamed of themselves.
The real cruelty was that all the teasing kids were acting like children for their own convenience.
They knew they'd be called out for why they did such things, and while everyone else transitioned smoothly and gracefully into the sensitive season of adulthood, they alone couldn't get there.
Out of that frustration, they pretended to be boys and girls at the level of first graders back then, proclaiming things like “That's embarrassing!” or “That's dirty!” to emphasize their pure humanity.
Moreover, the fact that it takes them longer than everyone else to move past this is a blatant display of a chosen-people complex, implying that they alone retain something pure and important that everyone else has forgotten.
Today's elementary schoolers are more mature and sophisticated, but even way back then it was like this, so I genuinely think these kids should be suspended from school.
And it's precisely these types who, once grown up, show up at boring class reunions and say things like, "Sorry about back then! “Forgive me, I was just a kid. We're friends, right? Let's make up!”
I don't recall becoming friends with you lot just because we happened to be in the same class, or just because we happened to go to the same school.
What an incredible delusion.
That's all I can think.
In the movie “The Cherry Orchard(Sakura no Sono)” there's a scene where someone confesses, “I won't forgive you just because I was a child. I'll never forgive you.” Even back then, I vaguely sensed I was in the same position as Tsuki Miho to the world, so I'll nod along and say, “Of course.”
Who on earth started saying things like,
“Let's listen sincerely to what children say”?
That adults have forgotten something important that children possess?
Honestly, I think this kind of immaturity deserves severe punishment.
I'm not that strong with alcohol, but I do like it.
I like bars, and I've been fortunate enough to get high-mid-level drinks while learning about alcohol, which makes me very happy despite being young.
Non-drinkers aren't children, but bars are for adults only. Young people are most welcome.
We were adults from the moment we were handed a schoolbag and told, “From now on, you'll go to school carrying this.”
We thought our bodies were still children, and we were about to embark on the process of growing up, learning various studies, manners, and maturity so we could eventually swim out into the vast ocean of the world.
This is the definitive proof that they were deliberately engaging in hate.
It's the ultimate proof that children don't possess anything truly important.
This isn't bullying—it's hate assault, hate murder, right?
Verbal abuse and scolding are assault crimes too.
Why write it in hiragana?
Are you implying this is just childish behavior?
Would a child still holding onto an angel's heart do such a thing?
These guys should be exempt from the Juvenile Law, right?
If you're searching for something important as an adult, you're the only one who's forgotten. Did you even remember it in the first place?
My name is Enamel.
You don't have to remember it. I don't think someone like you, who can't even remember that, could possibly remember katakana.
20260118 15:53 Revised the text.
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
