Sota's Manifesto

Falling in love is easily one of the most incredible feelings in the world. Your brain is filled with so many happy chemicals every time you're with this one person; they become your primary source of joy and the center of your universe. Nobody else matters.

But falling out of love, now that's a feeling of pain that is unimaginable. Something in your heart breaks, life becomes a constant journey through ache and sorrow, and nothing feels good to you anymore. You begin to hate everything and everyone, and it's all because you allowed yourself to trust the wrong person. Someone who you, during the honeymoon phase, convinced yourself was the one.

I was stupid enough to fall in love once, about a year ago, when I finally had enough courage to ask a girl out. Long story short, what followed was one of the happiest three months of my life. Which was, of course, soon accompanied by several months of near depression, sorrow, and heartache.

Love is a lie. It is exactly how I described it at the beginning. Just a bunch of chemical reactions in your brain that fills your mind with happy juice.

It is a drug designed to keep you in a temporary perpetual state of euphoric ecstasy. But trust me. It is not worth the pain, it is not worth the time wasted.

My name is Sota Sato, and I stopped believing in love some time ago. It was the best decision I ever made, as I am now a better man today than I ever was. Everything I have achieved, is as a result of avoiding the biological misconception an idea that is known as a romantic relationship. Now, I am fit, I am ahead in my studies, and I am in control.

The silence and my routine are all I need. Everything else—the noise, the chaos, the distraction of people—is a risk I will never take again.

Never ever.

Never again.