Show, don't tell.
The new journal layout that I've picked for the community allows a sticky post that stays at the top of the community page. With this new feature available, I'd like to try a few more discussion-driven activities that were hard to sustain in the old format. In the past, posts rolled off the front page before they had a chance to get going and I'd
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This kind of thing doesn't seem to bother most people. Given the chance, people are surprisingly frank when they talk about themselves. "I'm honest and open to a ridiculous degree," they'll say, or "I'm thin-skinned and not the type who gets along easily in the world." Or "I am very good at sensing others' true feelings." But any number of times I've seen people who say they're easily hurt hurt other people for no apparent reason. Self-styled honest and open people, without realizing what they're doing, blithely use some self-serving excuse to get what they want. And those "good at sensing others' true feelings" are duped by the most transparent flattery. It's enough to make me ask the question: How well do we really know ourselves?
This isn't my favorite book by Murakami but its the first time I was introduced to his haunting, honest, blunt writing and I fell totally and utterly in love. I read Sputnik Sweetheart annually or more because it gives me such a comfort just to hold it in my hands. This is part of one of my favorite passages (though I have many haha), there is a second part to it but unfortunately that would require going way over the word count so I will resist haha
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