Serendipity

There is this Japanese comic (aka manga) titled 'Le Cirque de Karakuri' which I've been following since few years ago, back in the time when I used to borrow those Comics Weekly from my lil' brother.

It is a fairly long story, with many characters and chronology of timeline being messed around, which makes it kinda confusing at times, as the story jumped from present to the past, from a memory recall to the recall of a recall, and so on..

But, it is a really fantastic title, featuring some of the coolest art designs and super-intertwined plots that at times I'm not even sure the storyteller knows how he's gonna tie up, lol.

The setting revolves around these groups of people who have mastered the art of controlling huge mechanical puppets which also act as weapons to battle against the evil self-conscious mechanical puppets.

Halfway through the story, I'm rather surprised to find that the cause for all these conflicts is actually the result of a desperate man trying to get the love of his life.

He had a few lifetimes' opportunity to get the love of the woman he loves, only to have failed each time, and each failure made him even crueler and more determined to get the love that he so madly craves for but could never get. In the end, he became the cold-hearted man who is willing to do anything to accomplish his goals.

The evil actions of this one lovelorn man created a ripple effect that affected the lives of a few generations of people down the timeline, and as the story pointed out, none of the characters in the story ever got their eternal happiness, because love and hate created a chronic chain reaction that makes everyone's life miserable.

But evil as this man is, at some point, I actually found myself sympathizing with him, who found heartbreakingly that in each different lifetime the same woman he loves always end up loving another man other than himself. I could not imagine how I would have felt if I were him (not that I can live through a few lifetimes :-P).

I wonder sometimes why do we crave for the love of one person so much that it overrides all our rationality? There are 6.4 billion people living on this planet at this single moment, is there really just one of them who happens to be my soulmate? Can this big emptiness in my heart not able to be filled by any other person?

More questions and no answers, well guess that's my style, lol.