On Twitter, some users still keep discussing (or simply disrespecting) Haruki Murakami (I can't tell whether they have read Haruki's novels). As a fan, I joined the discussion and posted my honest opinions. At least, one thing I tend to get careful/sensitive about I have had was there. A user started posting their opinion with the honest (yes, too-honest) confession, "For me, Haruki's literature could have been very cringe", putting/adding no specific details.
How cringe? Why? Definitely, as a fan, I want to ask about these things. The word (or the logic itself) brings me a memory of mine which was when I was a kid. At that period, I was also bullied with the words such as "You're cringe", "Creepy", etc. I won't say the word "cringe" should be prohibited. On the contrary, as the very keen feeling that can't be verbalized so easily "cringe" can work for us as a tool for discovering any fatal/special errors in our lives.
However, that "cringe" also can work for us as separating someone alien-like/heresy-like from the person/people. In other words, the one who has been said to be "cringe" can be isolated from the "normal" people or society. Therefore, at least for me, I want to keep trying to verbalize the sort of smelly suspicion/cringe emotion to find out what the source can be.
Am I becoming too serious/square? Maybe... However, about this topic, I have been getting a very important notification as a sort of eureka moment. I need to train my senses as keenly as possible enough to find out various "cringe" essences precisely in everything (because simply, I tend to find various tiny pieces of danger in my life with that suspicious mind). After that, my grey logical thinking system starts criticizing/analyzing that one to any outputted product of verbalized truths of mine.
This evening, a user on the app LINE sent us a message about how Haruki would be able to write the ultimate answer/truth to us to get the Nobel Prize. But, I say that it could be impossible for anyone, (yes, for ANYONE!). For me, Haruki has been weaving his very sensitive/gentle "stories" for us, in which various characters show their struggles to become more mature adults. I believe that must be the delicious taste of traditional "stories" themselves.
