"An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place or circumstances. The red thread can stretch, contract or entangle, but never break. " The millennial oriental legend tries to throw a little light on the mystery of the twin souls.

One of the legends about this red thread is that ...

An old man who lives on the moon, goes out every night and searches among the souls those who are predestined to join in the earth, and when he finds them he ties them with a red thread so that they do not get lost.

But the most popular legend and that which is recited in almost all Japanese homes to children and young people is this ...

A long time ago, an emperor learned that in one of the provinces of his kingdom lived a very powerful witch who had the ability to see the red thread of destiny and had it brought back Your presence. When the witch arrived, the emperor ordered him to look for the other end of the thread that he had tied to his little finger and to take him to what would be his wife; the witch agreed to this request and began to follow and follow the thread. This search took them to a market where a poor peasant with a baby in her arms offered her products. On reaching this peasant woman, she stopped in front of her and invited her to stand up and made the young emperor come up and said: "Here ends your thread", but upon hearing this, the emperor enraged believing it was a mockery of the witch. He pushed the peasant who was still carrying her little daughter in her arms and made her fall causing the baby to get a big wound in the forehead. Then he ordered his guards to stop the witch and cut off her head. Many years later, the moment came when this emperor was to marry and his court recommended that it be best for him to marry the daughter of a very powerful general. The emperor accepted this decision and began all preparations to wait for who would be chosen later as the wife of the great emperor. The day of the wedding arrived, but above all it was time to see his wife's face for the first time.

She entered the temple with a beautiful dress and a veil that completely covered her face. When he lifted the veil he saw for the first time that this beautiful face had a very peculiar scar on his forehead. It was the scar he had caused himself by rejecting his own destiny years before. A destiny that the witch had set before her and decided to disbelieve.

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The teaching of the legend of the red thread according to Japanese tradition has to do with the understanding of destiny and the preponderant role played by love in this thread. It clearly shows how the destined loves are that, we can not escape from the person who was born to love us.

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I tell this story, because my boyfriend and I, we have gone to and fro, but we always made the decision to return. We have always believed that it is destiny, in this case the red thread taking into account that we have lived close to all life (two streets) and we never saw each other, we studied in the same school, we never saw each other, we were in the same high school We never saw each other

So many years later, we are, we continue, and we will continue together.