Looking back on the writing process now,

I find myself thinking about one question all the time:

Standing at the fork in the road of life, what should people do?

I hope the reader will mumble to himself as he closes the book:

I've never read anything like this.

In the current materialistic world, living quietly, everyone will have a loss of heart, longing for a dose of heart medicine to heal all the hollowness in their hearts.

"Believe me, no matter how painful it is now, tomorrow will be better than today. ”

This is perhaps the most inspiring answer in the original book "Anxiety Grocery Store".

On the side of the secluded street stands a "worry relief grocery store, and if you write down your worries and put them in the slot of the roller shutter, you will be answered in the milk crate at the back of the store the next day."

The owner, Yuji Naniya, receives all kinds of troubled letters every day, and he also gives answers in a timely and serious manner, and it seems that all questions can be answered perfectly here.

This grocery store not only sells miscellaneous goods, but also provides counseling on troubles. And all the pallor and loss in your heart, it can help you get it back.

The author, Keigo Higashino, gave the highest meaning to "the grocery store that can give people salvation".

"The Grocery Store" is a symbol of love, healing, and redemption, saving others and saving oneself.

It is not easy to walk in the world, and each has its own problems. Unspeakable feelings will always erupt inadvertently. At this moment, perhaps everyone does not really want to get the answer in their hearts, but needs more inner confession and confession.

Even a comfort, a hug, and a listening are enough to be released and liberated, and to be willing to open your heart to be with your lonely self.

Keigo Higashino said in "The Grocery Store": Someone is grateful if they are willing to listen to their troubles, but don't many people feel this way?

The dilemma of life is always fulfilled by "love".

Heart, once gone, never returns.

There is no need for any specific reason for people to break off their feelings.

Even if there is one on the surface, it is likely to be just an excuse made up after the fact that the mind has left.

Because if the heart is not departed, when something happens that will lead to the breakdown of the relationship, someone should try to save it.

If not, it means that the relationship has long since broken down.

Your map is a blank sheet of paper, so even if you want to decide where to go, you don't know where the road is.

In fact, all people who are struggling to make choices already have the answer in their hearts, and counseling is just to get the choice that their hearts are inclined to. In the end, the so-called fate came out step by step.

It is also a good thing for people who are full of naïve ideas to suffer a little in society.

In fact, I knew what I should choose a long time ago, but I have never been able to make up my mind to give up my dreams.

To this day, I still don't know how to do that.

For example, this is like the feeling of unrequited love, knowing that the relationship will not come to fruition, but still can't forget the other party.

My answer worked for no other reason than because they worked hard themselves.

If you don't want to live an active and serious life, no matter what kind of answer you get, it's useless.

Many times, the person who consults already has the answer in their minds, and they come to the consultation just to confirm that their decision is the right one.

So some people will write again after reading the reply, probably because the content of the answer is different from what he thinks.

In fact, if you are really talented, luck is not so important.

I love you more than anyone else and want to be with you at all times.

If I gave up the game, I could have saved your life, and I wouldn't have hesitated to give up, but that's not the case, so, I don't want to give up on my dream.

It is because I have been pursuing my dreams that I live like myself and you like me. I think of you all the time, but please let me continue to pursue my dreams.

Please don't jump to conclusions with wishful thinking. If you don't challenge anything, you don't know the result, right?

May you not be angry all the day when you have gained too little; May you not be afraid all the time when you have gained too much.

The map is a blank sheet of paper, which is certainly nerve-wracking. Anyone can be overwhelmed.

But from another point of view, it is precisely because it is a blank sheet of paper that you can draw a map as you like. It's all up to you.

For you, everything is free, and in front of you are infinite possibilities. That's a great thing.

I sincerely pray that you can believe in yourself and burn your life without regrets.

We surrender the sorrow of the inconvenience to the intimacy to the stranger, and then seek a kind of comfort and recognition in the unsociable life.

Never one ear is truly persuaded by the mouth, and every counselor actually has an answer in his or her heart, and the answer only reinforces the counselor's belief from the positive or negative side.

When faced with two choices, a coin toss always works, not because it always gives the right answer, but because the second you toss it in the air, you suddenly know what you want it to be.

Worry-solvers are trouble-solving, but they don't know that worrying people also solve people's worries, which is interesting. The inextricable connections in the world allow the down-and-out little people to redeem each other, which is the sentence: "I feel that I am treated gently by the world".

The story structure and emotional context of the whole part of "Anxiety Relief Grocery Store" make people have to be impressed by this.

admired the author Keigo Higashino's insight into people's hearts and the delicate heart of the world; admired his sensitivity and fragility after his heart was isolated, but he was inadvertently filled with his heart and treated gently.

But no matter how bizarre and touching the story is, it ultimately returns to the theme of human nature.

Let people feel that in the cracks of human affection in the world, there will still be a trace of warm light shining in, warming and guiding you and me.

As Keigo Higashino once said in an interview: "The monologue of human nature and the coldness of society are propositions that human beings always need to pay attention to." ”

Recommended reading

"Anxiety Relief Grocery Store"

Author: Keigo Higashino

Publisher: Nanhai Publishing Company

At a grocery store on the corner, I wrote a letter of concern and threw it in, and the next day I received a reply in the milk crate. In this Langya grocery store, there is a warm grandfather Yuji, who specializes in answering your troubles and sincerely relieving your worries until he dies. Of course, the story is not so simple, there are three thieves in the grocery store, who happened to travel through time and space, and resurrected the "worry", so the story of 30 years is intertwined, and the narration is very wonderful under the pen carefully arranged by the author Keigo Higashino, like a reasoning movie, connecting all the people and things in the five stories.