The heart of things
…is very cynical, ha ha ha!
I will write about Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro later as I have to prepare for school, but there’s a passage in that particular book that made me really cringe. And sad.
I went back to my lodgings as soon as the ceremony was over, and stripped to the skin. I opened the window of my room, which was on the second floor and, pretending that my diploma was a telescope, I surveyed as much of the world as I could see. Then I threw the diploma down on the desk and lay on the floor in the middle of the room. In that position, I thought back over my past and tried to imagine what my future would be. I thought about my diploma lying on the desk and, though it seemed to have some significance as a kind of symbol of the beginning of a new life, I could not help feeling that it was a meaningless scrap of paper too. (p. 69)
Talk about combination of cynicism and pessimism! And it’s funny and scary that I read this passage months before my graduation. Oh my.
Angela Solis grew up in the Philippines before moving in to Canada in 2003. She became a Canadian in 2006. Angela is 22 years old and an alumna of University of Manitoba with a degree in Psychology. She has been blogging since 2002. She maintains a 