“Kyoto mountains have the color of red bean pudding”

Sandy 2022-10-19 12:49:22

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"She didn't recognize me." "Because she never saw you."

Mr. Ozugran is a Japanese man who is a gentleman to the core, and he has a great insight to discover the rich heart beneath the exterior of Renee's janitor.

Sometimes I feel very similar to Renee, put on a mask and pretend to be indifferent, and sometimes I don't even want to attract attention and are deliberately sloppy. At this time, others think that you are not the real you. And when she took care of her appearance, the neighbors around her didn't even recognize her.

I remember being slightly depressed in junior high school, and I was sloppy every day. Although I was a class representative, I didn’t have much communication with the teacher. In high school, I was learning makeup, and I became more beautiful. One day I ran into a teacher on campus, and the teacher walked over and didn’t recognize me. It's a normal thing, but it's just a bit of emotion. I hope to show my true self to the outside in the future, so that the people I attract will be more likely to be on the same frequency, and it will be easier to obtain happiness.

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People who have been treated casually will also be suspicious and avoid when they are seriously loved one day. Because they don't believe it, they're not sure about that love, and they don't feel worthy of it from the bottom of their hearts. The scene where Renee received the clothes from Mr. Ozu Grand made me teary-eyed. Is it really possible to be loved without doing anything? Being treated well, is it such a simple thing? Our avoidance is not because of scum, but because we are too scared, and because of a strong sense of unworthiness. If you are really willing to treat me well, please be like Mr. Ozugran, express candidly, stretch out your hand, and the hedgehog will retract its thorns little by little. Although the process is a bit long, it may hurt you, but I am fighting against my dark side. When I put away the thorns and we walk in the sunshine together, I will not be afraid of anything.

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We are all lonely hedgehogs, and only people with the same frequency can see each other's inner grace through the masks they show to the outside world. And life is a process of constantly looking for fetters. Instead of thinking about the meaning of life and ending life, it is better to create the next meaning of life together with others. Having a hot pot meal together, or going to the restaurant that we most want to go to, it is these moments with friends that constitute the so-called life. Life is never a very grand and indescribable thing, it is the daily life around us.

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  • Jewell 2022-03-17 09:01:08

    It's beautiful. But full of intellectual self-righteousness, events and emotions are mostly obscene, lacking power.

  • Roxanne 2022-04-24 07:01:23

    An inexplicable emotional life, a wonderful inner world.

The Hedgehog quotes

  • Paloma Josse: Planning to die doesn't mean I let myself go like a rotten vegetable. What matters isn't the fact of dying or when you die. It's what you're doing at that precise moment.

  • Renée Michel: Happy families are all alike.

    Kakuro Ozu: Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

    [Quoting from Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina']