This expresses how seemingly different worlds are, in fact, connected. It symbolizes the concept that everything in this cosmos is fundamentally one.
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I didn’t know why, and I had no proof. But maybe—just maybe—we’ve been here, with these people, in this place, in this moment, thousands and tens of thousands of times before.
I have forgotten everything, and arrived in this world. This self is not alone. I am with myself. Now, I and I are here. I journey with myself.
Maybe I would have died back in third grade, at eight or nine years old. Thinking that, a strange feeling sprouted toward this life that had been extended back then. A feeling that was tender, grateful, like a guardian saying, “You’ve come this far.”