Our Journey ⛰️ 🌊

This beautiful comic strip by Tum Ulit (a popular Thai illustrator) tells a heartfelt love story through a series of quiet, symbolic moments. The title/phrase that ties everything together is:
“At least we see the same sun.”
Here’s the full story as it unfolds panel by panel:

A lone hiker (the boy) walks through a dark forest, then struggles alone up a steep cliff, finally emerging into the light with a happy, relieved face.
Text appears: “At least we see the same sun.”
Now two people stand together looking at a huge, beautiful sunset/sunrise — showing that the journey was worth it because they found each other.
They reach a fork in the path: one sign says “Mountain,” the other “Sea.” They choose different directions and part ways.
The boy bravely crosses a dangerous rope bridge alone while the girl walks away on solid ground below.
6–10. They continue their separate adventures: hugging on a cliff, facing a bear together (wait—no, they’re apart again), getting injured, helping strangers, climbing icy peaks alone, saying goodbye to new friends, getting lost, arguing at night, bandaging wounds, sheltering from storms in a tent, reaching out for a hand that isn’t there, etc. Their paths are completely different — one high and cold, one warm and tropical — full of hardship, joy, loneliness, and growth.
Eventually both reach the very top of their respective journeys: one on a snowy mountain peak, the other on a tropical beach. They raise their arms in triumph at the exact same moment.
12–13. Playful moments (splashing in water with a cat, picking fruit with a monkey) show they’ve each built full, rich lives.
Years pass. They are older now, faces lined, hair changed, but still smiling softly.
They keep walking their separate paths, sometimes helping each other up, sometimes kneeling together in exhaustion, sometimes just holding hands in the forest.
Finally, an older version of the couple stands together again, the girl resting her head on the boy’s back as they look at the sky.

The last panels show:

The boy waving excitedly at planes flying overhead.
The girl (now with short hair and hoop earrings) doing the same on her side of the world.
And finally both of them, far apart geographically, waving happily at the sky under the very same sun.

The core message:
Even though life took them on completely different journeys — different places, different struggles, different joys — they were always connected by the same sky, the same sun, the same world. No matter how far apart they were physically or how different their paths became, they were still living under the same light, breathing the same air, and (symbolically) loving each other across the distance.
It’s a gentle, bittersweet celebration of love that endures even when people grow in different directions — or perhaps a reminder that soulmates can be separated by circumstance yet still share the most important things. The repeated sun is the quiet proof that they’re never truly alone.