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The colorless life of tsukuru tazaki5/20/2023 One day, sixteen years later, he meets a woman who tells him to find out what the four are up to so that he can piece himself back together again. Tsukuru finds it difficult to be truly vulnerable and intimate with anybody because these friendships abruptly end with no explanation being offered. He feels like he has lost a part of himself. Tsukuru invests so much in these friendships, that when the time comes for him to take a different route in life, he experiences a great sense of loss. This is because his name is devoid of any color and therefore he feels like he lacks personality. Even as a kid, when he meets a group of four others (two boys and two girls) all of whom have names that stand for colors, Tsukuru feels like the odd one out. Tsukuru has never really felt like he fit in anywhere. What sort of role do friendships play in shaping our sense of self and identity? How rare friendships, when they happen in real life, is the kind of stuff we don’t tend to easily forget. One of the aspects that struck me the most about Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is that it’s a story of friendship.
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