Even though it was something they had promised their guests, if only the 'Yuri Mom' they had been searching for so desperately had been there, the situation today would not have happened.
Moreover, as someone who has run a business, I couldn't help but feel even more concerned because I know how burdensome it is to have to constantly deploy additional staff in a store where the number of customers is not always constant.
I often do what I do in these situations and just do the best I can.
It was like saying thank you so loudly that it could be heard deep inside the kitchen, and then leaving the restaurant.
---From "5 minutes"

But, when I occasionally meet people like this, and the moments I spend with them are so overwhelmingly happy, the waves of emotion feel stronger than any moment I've spent alone at home, and I finally think, no matter how much I try to deny it, is friendship truly necessary? That's when I get sad.
Because friends aren't something you can have just because you want them.
---From "A Friend's Legacy"

As I began to understand my friend, the tangled thread between us began to unravel, and in the process of understanding and understanding someone, I felt, more than anything, my heart becoming at ease.
They say that if you stop hating someone, your heart will feel at ease, but the more you know, the more you realize how exquisitely and cruelly the principles of life can be.
In the end, as you come to understand someone, your heart becomes more tolerant, which leads to greater understanding, and as you understand more, your resentment continues to decrease, so a virtuous cycle begins where everyone becomes happy, right?
---From "The Power of Understanding"

For example, there are people in the world who think that it is better to just endure hardships rather than create an uncomfortable situation by saying to others, "I am having a hard time because of you."
For these people, not seeing the other person or avoiding contact is also a clear expression of intent, so it is equally difficult to do either.
I don't know why it's so hard for me to confess my pain to someone, but for some reason, there are people in this world who are born that way, and that's why so many people, including my friend, suffer alone, shed tears in front of their friends, drink until they're drunk, and then go home and make a fuss by writing letters they can't even send.
---From "The Letter That Cannot Be Sent"

As someone who loves conversations between people and makes a living by writing, this ambiguity and imperfection of language always troubles me.
But perhaps that is why I live, as if I were dreaming an impossible dream, trying so hard to use more precise words.
It's as if, no matter how much the world seems to be stagnant, humanity has never stopped striving for progress.
---From "A Short Essay on Horses"

For example, no matter how many times I decide on my own that I will not meet anyone anymore, that I will never date again, the future does not always go as I predicted.
Resolutions can be revised at any time.
Perhaps because life is so complex, ambiguous, and unpredictable, I'm even more inclined to have my own principles and find a center to my life, even if only to the extent that those principles apply.
What principles do you live by?
Everyone has their own guidelines for life.
And according to those guidelines, we each live different lives.

---From "Guide to Life"