待つ

Normally I don't do much stock in listicles, but I found a really good list of things for people who want to learn by reading and it seemed a lot more in-depth and well crafted than you usually get from list articles, so I took note and decided to try this short story which was one of the shorts they recommended, here's the link if anyone wants it: https://www.fluentu.com/blog/japanese/learn-japanese-by-reading/#toc_1

This is a very short little vignette about a woman sitting at a train station and mostly contemplating her anxieties and existential musings. The first page was probably the toughest and there were definitely some words and phrases that felt like they might be a bit more archaic than what you usually see since this was written sometime during WWII (I saw an interesting Kanji I haven't seen before in the word 不埒). That said, sticking with it was rewarding and after the first page hump I feel like I was able to get most of it, or at least understand the point of each passage and I think it was a nice sort of tone poem that gets you inside a scene from this character's life. I liked this kind of atmosphere and vibe and definitely want to check out more of Dazai.