Theme: Unattainable Things
Aim for essay- please write an essay with
-an introduction and conclusion
- explain some things that we can't have
- use correct Japanese grammar and spelling
SO CLOSE
(an essay by Mashima Taichi)
It's human nature for someone to reach far away. We're blinded by things that shine bright. We don't see something that's right in front of us.
Is it bad not aiming for something closer? Is it to really expected of us to just look at something farther away and call it our desire? It's a dream, isn't it?
However, dreams are no longer dreams when they come true. Is it dreams coming true that we really want? I think that it is.
We neglect things close by. This even goes for people. Because someone's close and we can see them everyday means that they aren't good enough. It's sick. But natural at the same time. Leaving person close by to be neglected.
While the person close doesn't shine as bright, they are the ones supporting them when they aren't their best. They are the ones that see you as a star. However much that little star changes to be brighter, it won't even compare to the memory of that greater star far away.
Things on people's minds are those that are faint. It's something that they think about over and over again as not to forget.
Then just before it disappears, they came back again to renew it. Why is it the one far away, but not the one that's been there first, supporting them over and over again? Endlessly until time stops or forever comes to an end because they have already changed us without us knowing.
We make up fantasies in hopes that tomorrow will be different from the ones before it.
And we dream that we will be the ones that they see a day from now, notice how long we've been standing out in the cold.
It was hardly true though, unless it's the case of them realizing the pain of reality. We then become the safety that they needed. A pillow to cushion the fall, to make something bad feel a bit more bearable.
In the end, Taichi just crumbled the piece of paper which he was writing on. Surely as dense as Chihaya was, she would have related to the essay if she had a chance to read it. She'd just fall deeper into everything that Arata was that he wasn't.
It wasn't like he ever had a chance anyways. In the end Mashima Taichi was just another coward in a sea of many others.
He kept on telling himself he wouldn't be the one to mess up their three person friendship.
Maybe it would disrupt the balance but it was that night when he tried to make himself believe that he hadn't fallen in love with Ayase Chihaya.
Crumbling that paper left him with passing through denial and another paper to write.