Therefore, most learn to hide themselves, enduring each day by mimicking ordinary faces, speech, and behavior. However, since they can never perfectly blend in, discrepancies emerge from minor cracks, leading them to repeatedly experience distance and isolation from others. Some live denying their true nature, some hesitate to reveal it, fearing the consequences, while others leave invisible signals in search of similar beings. They might pass each other by without recognizing one another, or, very rarely, they might sense a shared loneliness and cautiously open up to each other.
Relationships that begin with the premise of not being understood are clumsy and precarious, but precisely because of that, they are more earnest and closer to the truth. What matters in this world is not the uniqueness itself, but the choice to live with someone, whether by hiding it or by bearing it, and in the daily repeating routine, they constantly ask—to what extent can I hide myself, and to what extent can I live as myself?