Have you ever heard a word in a different language that just spoke to you? A word with no English counterpart, a word that you couldn't even begin to capture just right? You felt it when you heard it, and when you learned a translation it just didn't satisfy you? For me, that word is yugen. It is Japanese for an awareness of the universe, when you have a profound connection to everything. But it's so much more! It's nothing and yet everything, it's light and dark, it's hello and goodbye, it's happiness and sadness. It's the crashing of waves on a sandy beach and the twinkle of stars sprinkled across a purple-blue sky, but it's also the feeling of lonliness you get when the looking at an abandoned house and the musty smell of rain after a thunderstorm.
- Halcyon
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