Thoughts in Bonsai: Two Hundred Eighteen

(1) - So you're leaving for good?
- Once all the doors inside shut one by one, there's no way back.
- But some people still return...
- I am someone else.

(2) A river, a boat, an oar, and a boatman.
Truly, in one lifetime you need nothing more than this!

Still, it's good to know how to swim!

(3) - Come, shall we play in the water?
- I've never stopped playing since birth!

(4) - Careful, you'll slip.
- I walk barefoot.

(5) - If you can't have the good, at least take the better of the bad?
- What's good about bad anyway!

(6) - Women, what more can you say...!
They'll look for a roof overhead and ground underfoot...?
- As if men can manage without women!

(7) - That person who came...?
- There's a different chair set out there today!

(8) - Since you've done so much already, why not just do this little bit more?
- That little bit will finish me off!

(9) - Do you know where the difference lies between the two of us?
- Where?
- You save money, and I save memories.

(10) - Do you trust me?
- If you don't ask whether I love you, then my answer is yes, I do.

(11) - Are you still carrying my memories?
- To keep moving, one must carry something!

(12) - Why do you watch so many movies?
- Because I couldn't have you.

(13) - How far are you willing to go?
- As far as you don't become a stranger...

(14) - I called you all day, yet you didn't respond?
- You had called for the night...!

(15) - Can't you love me?
- First put yourself in the place of those who asked you this question and got no answer.

(16) - Where are you going?
- On pilgrimage.
- Before you go, settle what you owe me...?

(17) Some worship,
others put worship on display.

(18) - Why are you staring into my eyes like that?
- The one who knows the reason never stares.

(19) In my eagerness to see you
I fall asleep so quickly!

(20) - What if you ever find out I love someone else?
- Then I'll be free that day!
- From me?
- No, from all doubt about my love.