Watercolor Poetry Collection: My Bookshelf is Someone's Loneliness... ❿ Adlerian Psychology / A Man Troubled by Marriage and Buying a Home

My bookshelf is connected to someone's loneliness.
Is that book waiting to be read by someone?

【※This poem and illustration are inspired by the dialogue between the philosopher and the youth that appears in 'The Courage to Be Disliked,' and they give form to that worldview.】

To the blue sailing ship living in the moment

—— A poem of exchange between the youth and the philosopher ——

〈The World of Conversational Inquiry〉

Once, on the outskirts of an ancient capital that was hailed as a thousand-year city,
there lived a philosopher who preached that
the world is infinitely simple,
and that people can be happy starting today.

The youth, unable to accept the philosopher's
hard-to-overlook idealism,
visited the philosopher to question his true intentions.

The youth had a roadmap for marriage and a lifelong home,
but now, it was flickering like a candle in the wind.……

First Stanza: The Youth, the Collapse of the Sandcastle

【Youth】
The spring of twenty-eight passed without a sound,
and on the shores of thirty-five, a hundred-million-yen cliff looms.

The map of the future I drew
has been swallowed by
the surging waves of concrete.

Wasn't love supposed to be about gathering keys called conditions
to build a secure castle?

Without the keys, I cannot even stand at the starting line,
just standing still against the headwinds of the times.

Second Stanza: The Philosopher, a Shift in Perspective

【Philosopher】
Young friend, what you are staring at
is only the 'social number' of one hundred million yen
and the 'phantom of numbers' that has passed by.

Love is not a transaction to compete over the size of the castle one owns.

It is the resolve to rewrite the subject from 'I' to 'we'
and offer each other up while remaining imperfect.

What you are afraid of
is not that you cannot buy a house, but that you will be seen
as your naked self, stripped of conditions, and rejected—
is that not the very point?

Third Stanza: The Youth, Confession of Fear

【Youth】
Ah, you have seen right through me.
I was wearing armor called a 'perfect plan'
and searching for a guarantee that I wouldn't be hurt.

Without the armor, I am too fragile,
and it feels as if I have nothing to offer.

In this life where the plan has fallen apart,
what kind of value could possibly remain?

Fourth Stanza: The Philosopher, Here and Now

【Philosopher】
Life is not a single line drawn in advance.
It is not a journey that continues from the past to the future.

It is a canvas where the dots of the moment called 'here and now'
dance intensely and beautifully.

Even without a hundred-million-yen castle,
there are lights you can kindle and words you can weave.

You should let go of the attachment called a plan.

(The Philosopher's whisper)
Stop being afraid of the numbers of the future,
and tear up the schedule of the past.

For what you must step onto is the blank earth of 'now,'
which is to trust others.

Fifth Stanza: The Youth, Determination to Set Sail

【Youth】
The fear of the future is quietly melting deep in my chest.
Perhaps I had sold my soul
to the number of one hundred million yen.

The map is torn, and the castle has vanished.

But beneath my feet, there is still 'now.'

To face the person in front of me in earnest,
not based on conditions,
I will now cast off my armor and start walking.

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