Echoes and Notes on Instagram: "Osamu Dazai (1909–1948), one of Japan’s most celebrated yet tragic writers, is known for his raw explorations of alienation, despair, and the fragility of human existence. His quote on “waiting” reflects his characteristic blend of lyricism and fatalism. Dazai observes that most of life is not filled with vivid emotions like joy or anger, but with the long stretches of waiting - for happiness, for change, for meaning. This waiting, he suggests, is suffocating, cre