アダムの首飾り ― 永遠を手放した王の物語

Adam’s Necklace — The Story of a King Who Chose to Live “Now”

Like moonlight floating in a pitch-black sky,
this ornament of the heart rests gently beside one’s soul.

In the Eternal Palace lived a young king,
a being blessed with everlasting life — Adam Eterno.

Within his endless days,
all that needed to be done was sent to “tomorrow,”
and then to “the next tomorrow,”
quietly postponed again and again.

To live forever meant
there was never any need to hurry “today.”

One day, however,
Adam heard a certain rumor.

A fruit borne on the Tree of Pom —
whoever ate it would be granted something.

It was
the end of life,
and at the same time, a beginning.

— Death.

Adam went to the Tree of Pom
and tasted its fruit.

And so,
he obtained a life that was no longer eternal.

In that instant, for the very first time,
he learned the preciousness of life
and the aching fragility that tightens the heart.

Now a man who lived a finite life,
Adam fashioned that fruit into a necklace.

As though embracing a “now” that would never return,
he lived each passing day with gratitude,
doing his utmost until the day his journey would end.

This necklace is worn by those
who choose to truly live their lives.

Once called “forbidden,”
the fruit was never meant to banish the fear of death —

it became a symbol
of one who has decided to live now.

In time,
people took the name of the king who loved his fleeting days so deeply,
and began to call this necklace

“Adam’s Necklace.”