When You Live in “Another World” with “Another Name,” Human Potential Blossoms

There is something my brother has been pursuing for a long time.

It is the idea of living in “another world” with “another name.”

In the real world, people are often unable to do what they truly want because of the environment they were born into and the many constraints surrounding them. Because of this, many people are unable to fully express the potential they truly possess.

I don’t think the real world today is an especially easy place to live.

That is why my brother has long pursued the possibilities of anonymity and the idea of having another name. By doing so, he has tried to help human potential blossom in another world—by practicing it himself.

At the time, I didn’t really understand what my brother was talking about. But when I came to the world of Eorzea, I finally understood that another world truly exists.

This place was not just a game world. It was a world that could truly be another world, where many people live their lives.

Just like in the real world, the streets are filled with people. Everyone dresses the way they like, goes shopping, talks with each other, and sometimes even argues or gets into conflicts. It felt no different from the real world—a place where people live their lives.

Here, you can become the person you want to be. Your appearance, your character—both can be shaped as you wish. Of course there are limits and restrictions. But in some ways, those very limits are what allow people to shine, much like in the real world.

And in this world, some people go beyond the environment that the game itself provides and express many kinds of talents. Some create films, some compose music, and others write literary works.

These are clear examples of people’s latent abilities blossoming.

This place is not merely a world that contains game elements. It is another world.

Perhaps the kind of world that the metaverse and VR are now trying to create has already existed here.

The MMO world of Final Fantasy XIV, called Eorzea, is just one example. But in today’s world, where the internet exists, if you have another name, you can probably do almost anything.

And you can have as many “other names” as you like, and as many “other worlds” as you wish.

You can create, work, and live in different worlds under different names.

Those worlds might someday connect with one another, or they may remain quietly parallel.

If human potential can expand in this way, people may be freed from their sense of confinement and find life easier to live. And perhaps humanity itself could become gentler and kinder. If everyone could treat the person next to them with kindness—and that kindness spread—perhaps conflicts in the world might decrease, and peace could grow.

So I hope people will not hesitate to live in “another world” with “another name.”

What my brother has been pursuing for so long…

In a sense, I now truly wish for “the blossoming of humanity’s potential.”

— Norico Note