Fushi no Kami: Rebuilding Civilization Starts With a Village Volume 3

Once people had enough to eat, they started fussing over quality. Someone who was not sure whether they were going to have food on their table tonight did not worry about selective breeding for the next harvest. It was easy to eat for the sake of living, but it was difficult to live for the sake of eating.

chasing my dreams generates the hope that I need to live.

It also came to my mind that I was not sure if I could have survived without chasing my dreams, considering the harshness of this world

You taught me how fun my dream is. Thanks to you, I’m able to chase it so happily. I’m alive because I’m chasing my dream. That is the most extraordinary thing there is.

I realized how hard it was to have a dream in a poor society. If you were desperate just to survive, any plans for the future would only seem like excessive burdens.

He was prepared to go after his dream no matter how exhausting or painful it would be. He was ready to go beyond one thousand nights and still not achieve his goal. He was looking through an out-of-focus super telephoto lens to make out the contours of a dream which may never come to fruition. As a result, he did not notice the easy path at his feet. But that was only natural. It was pure joy to chase a dream so reckless that others tried stopping you. It felt great to burn with passion and love. Even when you failed and were full of regrets, it was fun to curse the ground upon which you fell. And it was the greatest feeling of all to swear revenge towards that bright light shining in the sky.