The Legend of the Red String of Japan 🔴

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* According to this myth, *

* everyone’s pinky finger is *

* tied to an invisible red string

* that will lead him or her to *

* another person with whom *

* they will make history. *

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For the Japanese, who know so much and *

* intuit more, human relations are predestined *

by a red string that the gods tie to the pinky fingers *

of those who find each other in life. Legend has it that

the two people connected by this thread will have an

* important story, regardless of the time, place or *

* circumstances. The red string might get tangled, *

* * contracted or stretched, as surely often * *

* * happens, but it can never break. * *

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This legend, so

much more aesthetic

than that of the twin souls,

occurs when it is discovered that

the ulnar artery connects the heart with

the pinky finger (which is the same reason why

in many cultures promises are made by two people

crossing their pinkies).The thin vein running from heart

to hand extends through the invisible world, to end its course

in someone else’s heart. But unlike other amorous superstitions,

the Japanese one isn’t limited to couples, or a single person who *

one is destined to find. It speaks of a type of arterial ramification *

hat emerges from a finger toward all those with whom we will *

make history & all those whom we will help in one way or another.

For the ontological imagination, the myth of the red string is a way

* to understand our itinerary of encounters as a predetermined *

plot where couples’ relationships, the intimate brushes *

* against someone, and all the little stories we *

crisscross with others are neither random *

* triumphs nor accidents, but part of a *

scarlet tapestry whose threads were

given to us when we were born *

* but which we knit ourselves.

One Japanese legend *

* tells of an old man who lives

in the moon & comes out every night *

to search among kin spirits to reunite them

* on Earth, who have something to learn from

each other, and when he finds them he ties a red

thread to them so they find their paths. Thus, our *

red strings end in someone else. Accepting this, or at

least considering it, is a secret consolation: it is as if

our steps stubborn as they may sometimes seem –

knew the route and geography of our multiple *

* amorous destinations, and therefore there

* were no “slips” or poor decisions. *

Thus, the legend of the red *

* thread tells us that within the *

* labyrinth of encounters and shared

stories there is a predesigned and perfect

path, a scarlet string which, like that of

Ariadne, connects us with our irrevocable

* destination placed at the edge of another

* string that will also lead to us. *

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