"If we think of our memories as having a shape, then one possibility is that they come in the shape of a box..... And so it happened that one day a box was delivered to me. I can’t say how big it was or what it looked like, but there was no mistaking that I had received it."
A thirty-something, successful woman travels to her rural town to attend a school reunion. Casual conversation results in her having flashbacks of a friendship with someone forever lost in time. You may read the story here. Mieko Kawakami
“If we think of our memories as having a shape, then one possibility is that they come in the shape of a box. I know that this is not entirely an original idea, but that doesn’t make it untrue. After all, we are born with more or less ordinary faces and bodies, deal with ordinary problems, share them with other ordinary people who come and go in our lives and eventually die. We all go through that, every one of us. As long as we’re alive, we can’t escape the utter ordinariness of our existence.”
Just in few pages Kawakami can create a whole world, she’s so talented!
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