An excerpt from the books of Takeshi Mori

In long-term relationships — marriages, lifelong friendships, the bond between parent and adult child — there comes a point where the grand gestures are finished. You have already said 'I love you' a thousand times. What remains is the daily. The ordinary. The Tuesday evening when nothing remarkable happens and you are simply sharing space with someone you have shared space with for years.

This is where mono no aware matters most. Because the Tuesday evening is the relationship. The grand gestures are punctuation. The daily presence is the text.

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