When it suddenly hits you that time has passed, that you are getting older without realizing it. The things you had yesterday but you no longer have… this is a very profound feeling that gets inside of me more than in normal people. In the first page of Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami the main character, Toru Watanabe, experiments this feeling very deeply “(…) thinking of what I had lost in the course of my life: times gone forever , friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again.”(p.3)
When I read this part of the book I felt like those words were written just for me, telling me that I am not the most nostalgic human being in the world, but Toru Watanabe. It might sound a little bit like a cliché (or maybe a lot),but the truth is, life happens very fast, one day you are thirteen and the next day you have grand children who are thirteen.
We hear about this every day, but suddenly it really hits us, and when it does you realize the way you have lived your life until that moment, and the best feeling is the one of having lived a life full of blessings and love, knowing that it has not been lost time, but un regrettable experiences. But if this is not the case, then hopefully we will still have time to enjoy the time we have left.
Vocabulary:
Ambled:
-An unhurried or leisurely walk.( www.thefreedictionary.com)
-To walk slowly.
-“As we ambled along, Naoko spoke to me of wells” (p.4)
Meadow
-A tract of grassland, either in its natural state or used as pasture or for growing hay.
-Land full of grass for different uses.
-“Now, though, that meadow scene is the first thing that comes back to me” (p.4)
Limpid
-Characterized by transparent clearness; pellucid.
-Something clear.
-“(…) the pool of a limpid spring”
Crammed
-To force, press, or squeeze into an insufficient space.
-To fill something until you can´t put anything else.
-“It was deep beyond measuring, and crammed full of darkness”
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