Falling for Sakura
Not that he could blame her after that, of course.
“In Japanese,” she began, “sakura symbolizes the transience of life—the extreme beauty and quick death, which in turn represents our own immortality. Our life could be taken away just like that, like in the olden days when sakura also represents the life of a samurai, ready to be sacrificed for his master in a blink of an eye. It’s the Buddhist teaching of mono no aware.”
“What does that mean?”
She cocked her head to one side, wondering why he was asking her so many questions. Why he wanted to know. Why he was so interested.