It was the silence I felt as my consciousness slowly returned. I couldn't open my eyes so all that enveloped me was pitch darkness. I also feel very tired and find it difficult to move. Despite this, I felt a comforting warmth, which calmed me down and covered me with peace. All the negative emotions that haunted me disappeared and my mind relaxed. At times like this, somehow I want time to stop and remain forever lulled in this feeling.

Still fresh in my memories, I had just had a painful experience. At that time I and my travel partner were together doing hiking activities. As people who like to climb mountains and hunt for views from above, we often climb various mountains together. Since childhood, I have also started various climbing activities, especially with my family or just with my father. Initially, I, who was still in elementary school, and my family did this activity as a routine at the end of the year to go on excursions or picnics to higher ground, such as hills or mountains. And then I got addicted and wanted to challenge myself to higher ground. With my father, when I was in middle school, we started our little adventure to the nearby mountains, from local to out of town. Then in high school, I started climbing with friends who had the same hobby as me. Until I reached university-level education, I joined the climbing community at the university and went on a hiking trip with community members.

That year, as usual, my community members and I would go hiking, but these were not the small mountains we usually climb, but the mountains that have the highest elevation in the world. That's right, we plan to challenge Mount Everest and hunt for white views from the top of the mountain.

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And it was then, at the beginning of May 2023, that I didn't think my life's journey would end when I climbed the highest mountain in the world. Perhaps due to my unpreparedness, I was so exhausted before reaching my destination that I was already feeling very cold. It was then, when I was walking, slowly my vision started to blur and my body started to shake. Even though I try to calm down, my body always ends up like that. So when my vision blurred once again, I suddenly misplaced my footing and slipped in the end. I kept rolling in the snow and ended up somewhere. Even though at that moment I heard the voices of my friends, it was already so low that my vision was swallowed into the darkness.

That's what I always ask myself nowadays. Well, that's fine. Even if I die, I already feel satisfied in life. Although a little annoyed because the limit of my life is only up there, but never mind. After all, I've had a lot of fun in life. However, it feels very comfortable here. I don't want to let go of this and sleep in this warm cradle forever.

Until one day the warmth I felt had turned to the warmth of affection. I realized that I had been reincarnated.

Even if it's not the reincarnation that I expected nor what you might imagine.