"My husband gave me my ikigai when our twins graduated from high school and moved away. He told me he felt the boys were our ikigai and now that the boys were gone it was time for us to search for our next ikigai. I love my ikigai!" - Jill NY

"My grandfather gave me, my sisters and all my cousins ikigai bracelets. He gave pendants to my mother and all my aunts. He is in his nineties and when he gave us our ikigai he told us that everytime we look at it to think of him. He told us everytime we look at it to remember we were his reason for being. It was incredibly emotional and I won't ever take it off." Kiko CA

"My boyfriend bought me my ikigai on a cord a few years ago shortly after I got mine I got him one on a cord too. We never take them off and change the cord about twice a year. I love the concept ok ikigai and knowing that we are always there for one another." Erica, CT