Exchanging Diary #9
From Taro to Hanako
Taro is 21 years old, Keio boy, but virgin. He is from a rural area.
Hanako is 21 years old, art college student. She is in love, but it’s not going well.
Good evening, Hanako.
My fingers are heavy on the keyboard today because I am going to write something I don’t want to write here. Let’s start with a continuation of the story about Ms. C, with whom I had a relationship, which I had written about in the previous two articles.
One month into our relationship, I was still desperate to be liked by Ms. C. But on the other hand, I was beginning to feel as if a small beaker with a capacity of about 100 ml were filled with black liquid.
I thought talking to Ms. C was boring. Our interests don’t match at all. She doesn’t read books and her taste in music is completely different from mine. She only wants to go to places that are covered in the media. I wasn’t really interested in Brooklyn’s original donut shop or the autumn foliage lights. In fact, I didn’t want to go there because it was too mundane. I just couldn’t accept Ms. C’s view of life. When we were dating, we talked a lot about the future; Ms. C often went to things like “lectures on how women should work”.
“Unlike men, women have to work hard, so they definitely need to work in a good working…