learning to live with loneliness — reflections from norwegian wood
"If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets." — Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
There are nights when the silence feels like a heavy blanket, and loneliness presses deep into my chest. Reading Norwegian Wood again, I was struck by how Murakami captures that ache — not just the empty kind, but the bittersweet loneliness that shapes us.
Like Toru Watanabe, I’ve wrestled with memories that both comfort and haunt. That strange solitude, when the world feels distant but your mind is loud, is something many of us know too well.
Sometimes it’s sitting alone in a café, watching strangers laugh, feeling simultaneously connected and profoundly separate.
Murakami’s words remind me that this loneliness isn’t just emptiness — it’s a silent space where we come face to face with ourselves. And maybe, that’s where real growth begins.
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