An unsavoury saviour.
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| Makoto Shinkai sure has a way of making dreary scenes look incredible. |
There
are many dreary things in this world, some big and some small. Ones of the
small kind are the kind that get swept under the rug in terms of memorability
and overall personal contentment. Why? Because they’re little things that end
up being ‘a given’ in our minds, deservedly so because having a shower
shouldn’t be something you consider a personal achievement. The bigger dreary
things in life are the things we complain about, things that take up a chunk of
time and effort and are also generally unavoidable, usually coming in the form
of a ‘commitment’ or that contract to harvest the souls of the restless. Look
at your daily life and you will surely find several activities that fall bang
perfectly in this category: a commute, long work hours, compulsory attendance,
cleaning your room/house/cow, wrestling invading bears, wrestling invading
beers, purely tedious work and so on. If there’s something in common in between
the things sequentially mentioned above in a string of words known as a
sentence, it’s that these are all things we generally dislike doing, and what
is another way to say ‘dislike doing’? ‘Dread doing’.
