Sunny
I drop in at a nearby batting center.
Although this is a new facility, it is always empty, and I can choose any batting position I like, from 60 to 130 kilometers per hour, left-handed pitchers, etc. Even when there are usually people there, there is always someone around.
I usually choose the most difficult batting position, whether there are people there or not. And I also choose the longer bat that is placed (easier to get a home run). This is because I’m a “good-looking guy.
You may think that I don’t care when there is no one around, but I am always pretentious, even to myself.
I’m not qualified to come to the batting cage and hit a ball like this. I am not qualified to come to the batting center. As a result, they take the aforementioned actions.
This habit of “playing nice” to oneself is not only demonstrated at the batting center, but is the same in everything. For some reason, when he was in junior high school, he thought, “It’s meaningless unless you’re at the University of Tokyo,” and when he started writing a novel, he thought, “The Nobel Prize in Literature,” without any basis in fact. For some reason, when he started something, he would aim for the pinnacle of his field. That, too, jumped out at me.
Somewhere along the way, this became the “vanity” theory (also known as the “big is better than small” theory) that I had perfected in my mind.
Of course, I did not go to the University of Tokyo, and as you know, I did not win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
But somehow I felt I had achieved results beyond my ability, just as if I had been hitting a 130-kilogram ball and could now hit an 80-kilogram ball with ease.
The biggest drawback of this theory, however, is that we are never satisfied with what we have obtained, and we are always left “dissatisfied. Dissatisfaction never makes people happy.
Still, no matter how old we get, we always want to hit a “hard fastball home run” at the batting center. This is even more so when people are watching. But it’s a totally annoying habit. It’s not like I’m a star.
A narrow store, a thick cloak, too much to do
