Threads of connection.

In-yun (인연) is a Korean concept that explains profound connections between people. I stumbled on this idea after watching the movie Past Lives (I recommend - get tissues!). It got me thinking about my own relationships, past and present.

The story follows Nora and Hae Sung, who are childhood friends with an unbreakable bond. When Nora’s family immigrates to North America, their lives are split apart only to reconnect years later.

In the movie, Nora explains that connections of all types that catch our attention, shake, open, or wound us… are not random. They are in-yun: “It's an in-yun if two strangers even walk by each other in the street and their clothes accidentally brush. Because it means there must have been something between them.”

So what if some people come into our lives, not to stay but to wake us up? What if, like Nora and Hae Sung, their role isn’t to be forever but to mirror something in us that we’d forgotten?

In-yun reminds us to trust the path. Honor who joins us, even if just for a little while.

In-yun reminds us that every thread of connection helps to bring us closer to home within ourselves.

As the saying goes: "we're all just walking each other home."