Introduction

Part 1.
relationship

A certain amount of sincerity and a similar amount of insincerity
Respect is pleasure
True affection
Generous people and strict people
Tears, anger, laughter
Taking on someone's life
Because I feel sorry
Meeting other people
It is misleading and difficult to understand.
High expectations for the relationship
There is no such thing as a 'natural' human relationship in this world.
The word 'it doesn't matter'
If you get into a relationship
Humans are inherently incapable of understanding others.
Understanding other people's inner thoughts
There are benefits but also harms.
The other person gave me a chance
Misconceptions about kindness
Duties and Rights
The conflicting possibilities of gain and loss
Perception error
Despair is the human
The misfortune of a person who cannot respect others
Support born of friendship
Not losing 'me'
Cannot give complete satisfaction
Parents are the earth to their children.
Between lovers of flaws
A person who can clearly be a perpetrator to the other person
Who is responsible
Definition of love
Love is how much you can misunderstand the other person.
That's not love
Even when you have no money and your health is not good
Why Love Is Dangerous
When the fiery love goes out
Love and consistency
An act that cuts off possibility from the beginning
There is no love without hate
Marriage is about fully accepting everything about the other person.
Nothing reveals the human heart as much as the way money is spent.
Doing something for one's own satisfaction and the satisfaction of others
It should be discovered after the failure has been liquidated.
First and last sincerity
If it's not good, it's not good either
Common sense or comparison is meaningless
Trying to listen to the wishes of the person living together
Factors that make it difficult to maintain a marital relationship
Sometimes you need to live far away
Discovering things you hadn't realized before
I was at home with my mother.

Part 2.
life

The feeling that the other person is not doing anything for me
The thing called humility
Each person suffers the most in his own way.
Experience true encounters in sorrow
Trials make us stronger
Subjectivity is not developed in a lukewarm environment.
Poverty is a gift from God
Gratitude in the midst of suffering
To see the beauty of the sea
Emotions of worry and fear
Inequality and contradiction
The joy of giving, the strength to bear loss
The boundary between humans and animals
A psychological state that is the exact opposite of fullness
Pain enriches humanity
Acknowledging misfortune and accepting resignation
Get used to giving up
The desire to do something forbidden
Calculation from zero
Giving up is not defeat
If you don't want to succeed
Life is the same no matter which way you go
No matter how bad life may seem
Life is unfinished
There is nothing that can be said to be done with this
piercing eyes
Helplessness is what liberates humanity.
The awareness of foolishness is the pleasure before God.
Among the things that have been taken for granted,
The talent of a person who despairs of his own abilities
A person called strong
A person called weak
The talents of ordinary people
Spend your life being fooled by premonitions
Even if it seems like a victory, the truth is the opposite.
A Warning Against the Complacency of Easy Humanism
What is happiness?
People who claim to be more unhappy than others
Unhappy moments don't last long.
Thanks to misfortune
Conditions of Freedom
A person who cannot be seen as he is by others
The pitiful reality of so-called affluent freedom
Most things that seem fairly realistic are fake.
The freedom of not knowing
The truth changes slightly with the number of people
lie
I live by roughly avoiding it by forgiving myself and others.
Nothing can be accomplished without getting hurt.
Act as if you have forgiven them.
Even if you don't forgive in your heart, pretend to forgive as much as possible
The path of the truly immeasurable courageous
Quiet reason is what matters.
Rejection and forgiveness
Turn left at the corner
Mistaking coincidence for fate
The law of karma does not apply
truth
Fate unfolds in completely unexpected directions.
optimistic outlook
Being notified of one's own death
Both illness and health are part of life.
Death is necessary for humans.
Thanks to death
The stars are masters of death
As the death of a leaf helps life
One thing is clear
Suicide means never wanting to interact with the other person again.
Taking one's own life means
Prostitution is better than suicide
No one's death will turn this world upside down.
A precious moment that cannot be exchanged for anything
The meaning of death

Part 3.
human being

What makes humans cool?
A being that can be both a bad person and a cunning person
You shouldn't criticize someone who doesn't have a warm heart.
Whether kindness is a virtue or not
The existence of human beings
Do not turn a blind eye to evil
If everything comes true as you wish
sage
All beings contain both bright and ugly sides.
The act of pretending to be a good person
There are two sides to everything.
Being attractive means being somewhat lacking.
doubt
I don't want to do anything more than accuse someone.
My ugly part
We are all cowards without exception.
Indifference and carelessness are different.
You're already punishing yourself
The meaning of sports as a mental training tool
When you're young, you don't have the qualifications or the knowledge to live a complicated old age.
The unwinnable misfortune of 'aging'
preconception
So that I don't have any regrets even when I die
Conditions for becoming human
The meaning of living in old age
Of all the remaining tasks, there is only one important thing
Aging, disease, and death
Gratitude
curiosity
Allow as many things as possible
My life as it is
What humans like is actually unnatural.
The true nature of nature
Plants exist with dignity
Where there is nothing
No living thing can survive without resistance.
What makes Oasis exciting is
Morning and Wind
Civilization in the middle of the desert
The freedom to think about what others think

Part 4.
god

God is an adult
Thanks to faith, I have experienced life deeply.
Direction of view
If you are left in a space with only stars and sand
Any life can find meaning.
God always listens
Things that can only be achieved through foolishness
God's judgment and evaluation
Real change
true individualism
God's defiled hands
All things concerning life belong solely to God.
Freedom not to have children
The living must live
No matter how cruel the fate is
A person who is comfortable in relationships from his/her own perspective
The Power of Prayer
The essence of prayer
Sometimes I deliberately cause pain
I will do my best as much as possible
How to convey love across vast spaces
I've tasted a rich life that cannot be explained without God.

Entry
The literary world of Sono Ayako

Precious values ​​are meant to be hidden
Sono Ayako's play on language reveals the essence

Sono Ayako's positive perspective, unfolding under the four themes of relationships, life, humanity, and God, contains a reversal of values ​​regarding things that have been considered hurtful up until now, and wisdom that penetrates the essence of life.
To those who are despairing, it offers hope, and through Sono Ayako's style of criticizing the world's hypocrisy, it heals wounds, resolves misunderstandings about things that were tangled, and provides a sense of relief.


We have often failed to accept all the connections that exist in life as they are.
Is it really difficult to find positive meaning in difficult human relationships, pain that seems to be given only to me, poverty, aging, death, etc.?

Maybe this is our preconception.
When you look at it from a distance, you see the strengths of people who seem completely incompatible, you discover yourself strengthened through trials, you realize humility through illness or pain, and perhaps life is even more fascinating because of death.


Sono Ayako's writing possesses a gentle power that reveals the hidden values ​​of life buried within our stereotypes.

Ayako Sono: Finding a Positive Life in Despair
Bringing out universal human empathy

In our youth, when we are enterprising and full of curiosity, it is difficult to feel the appeal of 'looking at life positively'.
But those who have had a rough and tumble youth know well the value of the joy of living positively.

The enlightenment of Sono Ayako, who overcame despair that was too much for a human to bear, such as a gloomy family environment despite being from an upper-class family, the resulting claustrophobia, and the threat of blindness, was the same.
His positive outlook, which allows him to find meaning in even the worst situations, has been a major support in his life.

Ayako Sono, who began writing as an adult, has always approached her writing with a mindset of "forgiveness," that is, acceptance of everything.
Based on this perspective, which is the result of a fierce battle with herself, Sono Ayako has met a wide range of readers since her debut as a candidate for the Akutagawa Prize in 1954, drawing universal sympathy from humanity with her sincere works imbued with a warm perspective on life and a deep humanism based on respect for life.