Word 021
In Nara, you feel the weight of time.
The stone lanterns of Kasuga Grand Shrine have stood for hundreds of years, exactly where they stand now. They do not wonder whether they should have been placed somewhere else. They simply are — quietly holding their light in the place where they were set.
Walking through this city with 1,300 years of history, a thought rises quietly: everything that exists here today came to be exactly as it was meant to.
In life — in the past — there is no such thing as "what if it had been different" or "if only I had done that back then."
This is not a question of viewing such "what ifs" positively or negatively.
The point is simply this: "what ifs" do not exist.
Our lives are unfolding exactly as they were meant to.
Perhaps your life is the same. Every moment that has passed brought you precisely here.