The Oath Engraved in Reincarnation

The prayer wheel rings and Sanskrit chants occur all night long. I sit beside the Buddha, half leaning against the setting sun. ——"If there is a next life, the fat man should not change his name, so that the short man will find you more easily. If there is a next life, let the short man be born two years earlier, and let the short man succeed two years earlier. When we meet again, the short man will love the fat man again. If there is a next life, the short man will love the fat man even more than in the previous life... If there is a next life..." ——This is a true memory, a memory engraved in the deepest heart of a man named "Shorty", a memory about a girl named "Fat Man", a story about them, a memory that cannot be escaped, a pain that cannot be escaped...