Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Letters in my draft

I originally wrote this back in 2021. Looking back at it now, this pre-dated Past Lives (the movie) by 2 years.

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Hey, I do not know when I'll be sending this to you. We spoke about the 缘分, and all that thought on destiny and fate etc. The version that I was thinking of didn't really translate to fate, or destiny explicitly. 

The 缘分 I was thinking of was more of timing or coincidence, where two people are in a phase of their lives looking for something similar. If it is at this time that they meet, that would be the the luckiest thing to happen to the both of them. That was the 缘分 that I had in mind.

I used to think very naively about love, that there would only be one. Obviously as I went through life I found it to be not true, not true. Now I'm feeling that there are multiple ones and it would just be the person that lined up.

So having that connection where we meet each other and share that time together, is 缘分.

Happy Valentine's Day.

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Cat Power - Stay

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