They say that to express oneself in Japanese the politest way to go about it is to be really really indirect. The English language too, is founded on beating around the bush. Take last night for example. I desperately wanted to say to someone 'I hate you,' but I didn't. Instead I opted to tell the person in question a hundred bits of information; each was a token piece of the jigsaw puzzle which they would rearrange by themselves. A game that would eventually reveal the truth. That I felt incredibly sour about almost every aspect of their sad little life. Hopefully when they realised this, I would be far away.
Said person is not a friend. Nor are they an enemy. Only a random human, met by chance through another human last night. And thankfully, I will never see them again. Let's set the record straight though – I don't think I'm being harsh. Everyone's the same: some personality traits make me shudder. And this blessed person managed to incorporate all of them into his being. I should congratulate him.
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