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The world is a frightening place.

At some point, we simply find ourselves existing, drawn into its inertia.

We pursue worth. We pour our hearts into meanings that have long been established. Yet those meanings are no more than legacies that have been handed down from someone to another someone for a very long time.

No more than contingent things that happened to arise in the course of people's lives...

Meanings that have been assigned, rolled along until they settled into some ill-fitting shape.

Mankind is crushed beneath those values. We are swept up in them, exhausting our emotions and squandering the time given to us in this life.

A newborn infant knows nothing of the world.

Its pulse of life bears only the human nature it never asked for.

And the world mercilessly smothers it in clothing and shackles called "the values of humanity."

Education and learning. Under those two names, human beings are pressed into molds and stamped into shape.

What I want... is for each person to live in the image they have envisioned for themselves,

to paint this cold, heartless world with warmth.

I want to offer a way out to a mankind caught and crushed beneath the wheels of values.

That is my wish and my gift for everyone.

That is the healing I want to offer.