An idea that sparked joy five years ago has sprouted on the vernal equinox

I wanted to open this on the vernal equinox.

It's not something that gives you a direct answer.
It's the kind where you choose for yourself, move forward, and encounter words along the way.

The vernal equinox doesn't have to be a day when something is completed;
it can be a day to quietly start feeling which way you are heading from here on out,
since it is the beginning of the year in astrology, after all.

That is why this time, I have set up an entrance in the form of a diagnostic test where you branch off and proceed.

But the spark of the feeling that made me want to create this is not from yesterday or today!

The original trigger was an idea I encountered five years ago.

Instead of just reading text, you choose along the way, and the scenery changes depending on how you proceed.
When I encountered that format, I simply thought it was amazing.

I didn't know there was a way to present things like this.
Reading can open up in such a way.

By choosing for yourself rather than just receiving, the act of reading itself becomes a bit of an 'experience'.
I think that sensation is what truly moved my heart.

The article that started it all is this one.
When I encountered Wordy-san's idea, I was genuinely surprised, thinking, 'There is a way to present things like this.'

I think this is probably what a spark of joy is.

It doesn't have to be a big event.
It doesn't have to be a flashy change.

It's just that small light in your heart,
'I like this,'
'This is interesting,'
that kind of tremor.

Sometimes it ends as just a 'like' in the moment.
Sometimes it doesn't take shape right away.

But the light that has entered your heart once doesn't disappear as easily as you might think.

It can transcend time and sprout in a different season, in a different form.

This branching diagnostic test was exactly that for me.

After encountering that idea, I immediately imitated it and made one.
At the time, I repurposed past articles.

Because I knew of a fortune-telling method that was perfect for that format.

What I made back then is this.
It feels a bit nostalgic now, but for me, it was an important entrance that led to this current project.

Back then, I just wanted to try it.
I wanted to get my hands on something I found interesting.

Looking at it now, it feels a bit nostalgic.
It's not as polished as it is now, and the way I made it is different, too.
Ever since that spark of excitement, I have been
continuously securing a place in my past notes for the future.

Because I had that 'I want to try it' feeling back then, it is
definitely connected to this current project.
When I think about that, I realize that the initial impulse is truly important.

When I am creating, it sometimes crosses my mind.

Even if it doesn't become my own right then and there,
once something enters your heart, it continues to live on somewhere.

Even if you can't master it right away,
even if you can't put it into your own words immediately,
the fire remains, and over time, it warms to your own temperature.

And then one day, at a sudden turning point,
you realize, 'Ah, this is what I wanted to do now.'

This current project was surely like that, too.

There was an idea I encountered five years ago,
I was truly thrilled at the time,
I touched upon it in my own way once,
I didn't know what would happen, but I started preparing,
and now, at the turning point of the vernal equinox, it has blossomed again in a different form.

Seeing someone else open a door,
I create my own doorway.

Rather than imitation,
it might be closer to relighting the fire I received in my own space.

I think there was a real meaning in wanting to finish this
on the vernal equinox.

The vernal equinox is a turning point where the lengths of day and night become equal.
It is a place where things that were skewed align for a moment, and from here, the flow changes again.

But what is always needed at such turning points
is not just grand resolutions or beautiful declarations.

A feeling that hasn't yet become words.
A heart that hasn't yet fully decided.
But a sense that something has already begun to move.

That 'pre-arrival' time suits the vernal equinox well.

So this time, rather than something meant to provide an answer,
I wanted it to be something for choosing where to enter from.

I wanted to treat the vernal equinox not as a day for conclusions, but as a day when an entrance opens.

The fun of a branching diagnostic isn't just in the result itself.

What did you choose?
Which scenery were you drawn to?
Which door did you want to open first?

That is where the outline of who I am now emerges.

Perhaps people choose with their senses before they do with their heads, more than they realize.
And within those choices, the signs of the themes I want to open up and the direction I want to head appear.

I think divination is less about asserting the future,
and more of a tool to bring things that haven't been put into words yet to a place where they can be seen.

This branching diagnosis is probably something close to that as well.

And, I think of one more thing.

I have kept this space reserved for five years to do something like this,
and it wouldn't have taken this form without the preparation from five years ago.

Not to use it up right away,
but so that someday, I could place an entrance for words in this form.

Because there was a place I had been preparing for a long time, I was able to publish this yesterday.

When I think about it that way, the time spent preparing might not have been a detour.
You could even say it was the shortest path.

The feeling of thinking "that's amazing" back then.
The feeling of wanting to try imitating it.
The feeling of wanting to do it in my own way someday.

Those small sparks of joy took time and properly connected to the present.

And this time, what opened on the vernal equinox was not an answer, but an entrance.

To choose.
To move forward.
To meet who I am now beyond that.

I wanted to place such a small experience at this turning point.

If you'd like, please try choosing a door yourself.

Hey, give it a try. Please do.

You can use it in this way, too.
Where reading becomes a bit of an experience.
Where choosing reflects who you are right now.

Because within that scenery, the signs of who you are now should surely be there.

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