And running running

but i think if it means something to you

fight for it

i mean wouldn’t letting go just be giving in ?

it means something to you

that’s why you’re hurting

do what you can

fight for what you love

and when there’s nothing you can do any longer

know that you tried your best

even if it is after

you fighting a losing battle

by all means

That 1963 disappearance was a scandal. She had been the most beloved of film stars, her handsome face, accepting smile, known to all. And then, suddenly, rudely, without a word of apology, she was going to disappear—to retire.

Here, where the stars hang on, voluntary retirement is unknown, particularly for one the caliber of Setsuko Hara. She had become an ideal: men wanted to marry someone like her; women wanted to be someone like her.

This was because on the screen she reconciled her life as real people cannot. Whatever her role in films—daughter, wife, or mother—she played a woman who at the same time, somehow, was herself. Her social roles did not eclipse that individual self, our Setsuko.

I can’t think of any reason why someone would not reblog this.