今朝の落書き

It suddenly occurred to me that making something difficult to understand easy to understand is sometimes the right thing to do, and sometimes, after all, it is not.

When someone says, ‘In short, this is what it means,’ I very often think, ‘Ah, I see.’ But is the world really so full of things that can be summed up that much?

There are cases where someone or something has made an originally simple matter difficult to understand, so that effort is needed to make it clear again. And there are cases where something is difficult to understand by its very nature, and we make it easy to understand.

Both end up as an easy-to-understand account. But in the latter case, does that clear account really contain everything that was in the original difficult one?

Come to think of it, what makes the telephone game interesting is the increase or decrease in the number of words, and the change in meaning. Those two things.

To a greater or lesser extent, whenever words pass from one person to another, they change in quantity and in quality.

‘In short’ would presumably mean reducing the quantity of words and improving their quality. But are there really that many such convenient opportunities? I still find it a little suspicious.

Well, to sum it up, what was it again?
Ahaha.

Thank you for reading again today. Lately, I have been writing poems and all kinds of thoughts, and such writings keep piling up around me. Yet before I can think of choosing something from that pile to write here, I have already begun writing or thinking about something else. It is a problem.

Still, I feel I tend to say ‘in short’ when I want to joke around. I like that moment of grinning while I wait for someone to retort, ‘As if!’ Well, in short, when I really begin trying to gather things precisely and say something, I cannot sum them up at all. In short, I cannot make it short.