Most relateable girlfriend there will ever be.
I'm 32 as of this comment, and I've never worked a day in my life.
Rentarou saying being allergic to working is as normal as some people being afraid of bugs...
that's the kind of thing I LOVE to hear. Yesss, justify me.
He wasn’t saying that not working was fine, but that she wasn’t being coddled for hating working. She just needed someone to understand and give her something she really wants to work for. Which is why once she realized that Rentarou would be that for her, she picked herself up and decided to get a job.
Point is, she just didn’t want to continue feeling like working was for nothing. Because as she said, she never had any time for herself. This is a common problem in Japan specifically, it’s part of the reason birth rates are so low, and suicide is rather high. Because if people aren’t being literally worked to death, they feel like death is the only release from their suffering.
Tama said the same thing, how she was just about ready to end it all, before she talked herself out of it and refused to put it up to chance if she would even reincarnate. She gave up being a human, not because she didn’t want to work, but because her life felt meaningless. To her work was just a continued means to an end, in this case survival. But she wasn’t living, she was just going through the motions. And every time she reached out and sought help, sought some sort of relief, she kept being told to deal with it and stop being “coddled” when that only added to the problem.
The advise that probably would have helped her, would have been for her to find a better balance between life and work. Maybe fix her schedule, or look for another less taxing job. Some people just can’t handle certain jobs, it’s a part of life, everyone has things they’re good at and bad at. But completely giving up and not figuring something out is never the answer. It only leads to a worse life, or in this case being pushed to the point of attempted suicide.