We fall in love, we fall out of love. We grow, and inevitably, we outgrow others. "Ikigai" is the story of human emotion, disillusion, and heartbreak as captured through the years of a single relationship. Ikigai transcends gender and audience, as the reader is given just the story, told from two perspectives. Any emotion, once stripped to the bare bones of this romance, is applicable to all readers acquainted with love and loss, with youth and depression. This is the story of what it means to be human.