Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 18

When Toru is in a bar in Sobbaru he comes across a singer who says that other people can feel the pain of others by making it their pain. The concept of empathy; however, Creta Kano was someone who experienced great pain and decided that no one understood how she felt. The way the singer talks about feeling what other people feel, Creta can be seen to be self-absorbed believing that the people around her don't know pain, when the pain she feels they feel. They want to share the pain and joy with others. The chance meeting of the musician and Toru may have been destiny and not luck.