It means that I looked back at you 500 times in my previous life and I passed by you again in this life. It implies that fate is rare.
From: Sil Murong's poem "Looking Back".
Xi Murong was a very popular Taiwanese poet in the 1980s, and one of her love poems, Looking Back, has this line:
"The Buddha said, "It takes 500 times of looking back in my previous life to get one brush of the shoulder in this one,
So how many times do I have to look back to really live in your heart? "
Meaning that it took five hundred times of looking back in the last life to brush shoulders in this life, so how long will it take for me to come into your heart.
Extended Meaning:
Karma is a kind of karma destined by heaven, two people's karma reaches a certain realm before two people can meet, when meeting the person they are destined to meet.
Should learn to cherish, learn to cherish this hard-won fate, two people can meet in thousands of people is also a rare fate, met, do not let down this fate.
Writing skills:
Xi Mu-rong's writing style is good at using repetitive sentence patterns, so that her article presents a soothing musical style and is full of idyllic pastoral mood, in the management of syntax, in addition to focusing on the overall effect of the pursuit of word beauty. Her essays are centered on characters, and her sincerity can be easily seen in her simple speech, which is characteristic of a tranquil prose.