Convenience Store Woman

Well, I guess anyone who devotes their life to fighting society in order to be free must be pretty sincere about suffering.”

I no longer knew what standard to live by. Until now, my body had belonged to the convenience store, even when I wasn’t working. Sleeping, keeping in good physical shape, and eating nutritiously were all part of my job. I had to stay healthy for work.

My body had belonged to the convenience store even when I wasn’t at work. Having been liberated from this, I didn’t know what to do with myself.

I want to spend my whole life doing nothing. For my whole life, until I die, I want to just breathe without anyone interfering in my life. That’s all I wish for,”

I was beginning to feel that any change, good or bad, would be better than my situation now.

It appears that if a man and a woman are alone in an apartment together, people’s imaginations run wild and they’re satisfied regardless of the reality.”

So the manual for life already existed. It was just that it was already ingrained in everyone’s heads, and there wasn’t any need to put it in writing.

You eliminate the parts of your life that others find strange—maybe that’s what everyone means when they say they want to “cure” me.

Deep down I wanted some kind of change. Any change, whether good or bad, would be better than the state of impasse I was in now.

“In other words, you play the part of the fictitious creature called ‘an ordinary person’ that everyone has in them