FALLING in love

Most of my interpretations of the fall, as well as my research has been really gloomy, and looked at the fall from negative and depressing point of view.
So I decided to look at the fall from the –falling in love perspective and the idea of fat and destiny.
When looking at this subject I found out about the red string of fate, a new thing which I did not really know about.

The red string of fate is sometime also referred to as the red thread of destiny is an East Asian belief originating from Chinese legend as well as Japanese legend. According to this myth, the gods tie an invisible red string around the ankles of men and women who are destined to be soul mates and will one day marry each other. However for more recent interpretations the string is tied around each person’s thumb or pinkie finger.


The two people to be connected by the red thread are thought to be destined lovers, regardless of time, place or circumstances, this magical cord may stretch or tangle, but never break. Kind of like your soul mate

One story featuring the red string of fate involves a young boy. Walking home one night, a young boy sees an old man standing beneath the moonlight (Yue Xia Lao). The man explains to the boy that he is attached to his destined wife by a red thread. Yue Xia Lao shows the boy the young girl who is destined to be his wife. Being young and having no interest in having a wife, the young boy picks up a rock and throws it at the girl, running away. Many years later, when the boy has grown into a young man, his parents arrange a wedding for him. On the night of his wedding, his wife waits for him in their bedroom, with the traditional veil covering her face. Raising it, the man is delighted to find that his wife is one of the great beauties of his village. However, she wears an adornment on her eyebrow. He asks her why she wears it and she responds that when she was a young girl, a boy threw a rock at her that struck her, leaving a scar on her eyebrow. She self consciously wears the adornment to cover it up. The woman is, in fact, the same young girl connected to the man by the red thread shown to him by Yue Xia Lao back in his childhood.