Hikari, the metaverse and jellyfish

Hikari was a girl living in Tokyo who mastered technology but feared Nature. I met her in a Japanese company where I worked for six months; she was my interlocutor with the managers of that company. Hikari loved jellyfish even though she had never seen one live; she spent long periods of time admiring their evolutions in videos and 3D animations projected on giant screens. When I asked her to describe, for example, the smell of the forest or the sea, she accessed the technology and gave me perfect but distant answers... For all the six months I stayed with her, I spoke to her about the silences of Nature, the sea, the woods, the sensations one experienced in contact with Nature; she listened to me putting her gaze into the deepest part of my being; then she contrasted everything with her technological sources and at that point, it seemed that she was no longer interested in my words and my stories. I invited her hundreds of times to visit with me any place outside Tokyo where she could feel Nature. She never accepted my invitation. The last weekend before going back home, she cut her long hair and asked me to take her to where I knew the jellyfish lived. I took her to Jodogahama, to the sea. During the trip she was terrified, she didn't speak, she was self-absorbed in her technology as if it were her safe haven. She smiled at me. I melted in the rapture of her gaze. When she saw the sea, she literally had a metamorphosis, she stripped off any technological gadget and most of her clothes. She remained silent for hours listening to the sea, smelling it, feeling it on her own skin. I heard nothing more about Hikari, she disappeared from my sight and from my life; I guess she left the metaverse forever and joined her jellyfish...