Thereโs nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you donโt fit the stereotype yet.
Haruki MurakamiAdults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.
Haruki MurakamiWell, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange things have happened one after another, to the point where, if I try to think about them in order, I lose track.
Haruki MurakamiI think certain types of processes donโt allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is transformโor perhaps distortโyourself through that persistent repetition, and make that process a part of your own personality.
Haruki Murakami