Status Updates From The Life of a Stupid Man

"(...) he understood more than most the friend's loneliness - the loneliness under the light-hearted mask".

"The only things before him were madness or suicide. Walking alone on the twilight street, he decided to wait for the fate that would slowly come to destroy him".

"I hear you want to die".
"Yes. — No, rather than wanting to die, I'm tired of living".

"The suicide of his sister's husband suddenly struck him down. Noe he had to take care of his sister's family too. His future, at least to him, was as dim as dusk".

El peso de ser el responsable de mantener a tu familia... cuando apenas puedes soportarte a ti mismo.

"But he himself knew the source of his illness. It was a feeling of both same towards himself and fear of them. Them — the society he despised".

Leer a cualquier escritor que está pasando por una crisis depresiva severa es complejo. Aunque muchas cosas pueden parecer sin sentido, la esencia del sufrimiento sangra en la historia. Veo cómo estas viñetas pueden parecer aburridas, pero es tétrico entender a lo que Akutagawa se refería en algunos casos...

"Why was this one born into this world full of suffering? Why was this one destined to have someone like me as a father?"

Life was no longer bright at all for him at twenty-nine. But Voltaire provided him with artificial wings.