These guys make me happy. Watch the ending.
Since the video was filmed in Japan, I am reminded that I finished Haruki Murakami's Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. I mentioned that I was finding it a bit slow, but I stuck with it and was pleasantly surprised. Instead of being a novel about a rather lackluster, whiny character drawn toward suicide, (Tsukuru Tazaki, whose name, unlike that of his friends, does not have a color word in it), it was a novel about forgiveness and reconciliation. Tsukuru finds himself abandoned by his best friends when he is in college, but as a nearly middle-aged adult, he starts to fall in love and realizes he cannot love this woman until he makes peace with the four friends he loved in high school who betrayed him. So he goes in search of them. He finds out why they cut him off, and what they are doing now. And by reconnecting, he is healed from the wound that had scarred his heart and prevented him from being generous with love. It is a restrained novel, not surprising from a Japanese author, but it is full of deep emotion. I will be looking for more books by Haruki Murakami the next time I go to the library.
