The theme 'Specular Paths' comes from the awareness that there are some things that cannot be achieved alone: recognising ourselves after a moment of great pain or confusion is one of these things. The "path" is the one each of us takes to find ourselves; the "mirror" is the one in which we look at ourselves to find the answers we are looking for. As the philosopher Paul Ricoeur reminds us, after identifying and recognising ourselves, the final and fundamental stage is mutual recognition. We therefore need another path, mirroring our own, to get out of the spiral of pain: we need a person who can empathise with us and give us the gift of their recognition, allowing us to be grateful to them for having given us inner peace. So there is not just one path. There are at least two paths, and they are specular, because the person who will help us to come out of the darkness will be in front of us, will act as a mirror, in a complementary or opposite way, but still able to help us to recognise ourselves, to reflect and reflect ourselves in the mirror. With Ricoeur, Komorebi becomes a hymn to life that cannot be sung alone: death and pain are defeated at least in two.