Life is long, should be long

Mr. Cory, I truly sympathize with your comments and experiences. Your comment about mixed feelings toward your wife really struck home with me as well. Indeed, I too am a Richard Cory, living a farcical life with all of the appearances of the enviable.

Despair and hopelessness often consume me as well, for my son was taken from me by my beloved wife and I have not seen either of them for nearly a year. I am working through the Japanese system, but as has been written many times before, it is a joke quite unfunny.

Almost nobody in my professional circles or otherwise knows of what has happened to me in the past year. I meet new people at cafes, the gym, all around — they assume that I am single, and I encourage this misunderstanding, if only to start the makings of a new life.