My Story is Long: Interesting Nuts

Hello, this is Mikan🍊.

Recently, I've been hooked on watching old dramas.
And so, one I'd like you all to watch is Ore no Hanashi wa Nagai starring Toma Ikuta.

Ore no Hanashi wa Nagai is a story about Mitsuru, a 31-year-old unemployed man living at home who is great at making excuses, as he gradually changes while living with his sister's family and grandmother, who moved in during a home renovation.

At first glance, Mitsuru might just seem like a guy who makes excuses, but I think his words are packed with truths about life.

When his sister told him, "If you don't know something, just look it up on your smartphone," this is what he said:
"There are no interesting nuts to be found on a life path walked in the shortest time and shortest distance."

First of all, Mitsuru's ability to take the everyday "just look it up on your smartphone" issue and turn it into a life lesson is amazing, and the way he expresses it as "interesting nuts" is quite intriguing, isn't it?

I'm currently struggling with my own career path, and I had been writing down things like what I want to do in the future and what I should be doing now, but hearing Mitsuru's words made me realize something.
Perhaps I've been focusing too much on moving forward in the shortest time and distance, and in doing so, I've been blocking off all other paths.
Maybe I've been too afraid to take paths other than the shortest route, and that's why I haven't been able to move forward.

And that taking a detour isn't necessarily a waste.

Just as no one is perfect,
"Even if the future you imagined is a little different from where you are now"
(V6's "Feel your breeze"),
there might be new encounters and new places there, and you might find "interesting nuts" that only you can discover.
So, I think I'll try not to weigh myself down and just think about my future slowly.

Why don't you all try not to be too hard on yourselves and look for your own "interesting nuts"?

See you later.

August 14, 2026