This video of a lemon descending a hill has been viewed 3 million times

For two minutes, Mike Sakasegawa followed a lemon as he hurtled down a hill near his home in San Diego, filming the Citrus Adventure on his phone

He had not no plan for lemon. Sakasegawa saw him first at a distance, already rolling at a steady pace, as he was returning from his morning run.

"I thought it was a tennis ball or something," Sakasegawa said in an interview Thursday. He had just pbaded a guy who was walking his dogs. He ran to catch the rolling object, and it was only as he was getting closer that he noticed that it was actually a fruit.

Sakasegawa decided to follow the lemon. "I wanted to see how long it would continue to roll," he said. He hoped it would run far enough

He did not talk to the lemon, nor did he touch the lemon, until he stopped rolling down the hill.

After the lemon stopped, Sakasegawa posted his documentary Twitter. In 24 hours, his video has more than 2.5 million views

Here is the lemon:

Sakasegawa is a photographer, and his work often focuses on the beauty of mundane objects. That's probably why he followed the lemon on the hill. But Sakasegawa is still very confused as to why someone else was interested in lemon.

"I post things that are similar all the time," he said. "Most of the time, it floats".

Lemon has not been.

To date, the video on lemon contains more than 36,000 retweets and more than 130,000 likes. The answers are so overwhelming that Sakasegawa has muted his Twitter notifications.

Why has lemon become viral? Who knows. Even Sakasegawa does not do it. It's very confusing.

"It's hard to say, I think that at some level, something becomes viral every day, I think it's a kind of random chance." he said. "Judging by the things people say, people find it soothing, they just like to take a break from everything that's going on."

But people are not just interested in They are rooted for that.They are inspired by that.If the lemon can continue, we too.A literary agent has already reached out to Sakasegawa to see if he would be interested in turning the lemon into children's book.

Sakasegawa returned home after filming the lemon, leaving him alone at the end of his journey, but then something pulled him off

"I do not know," he says. It's very silly, I guess. I felt bad in some way. I had watched this lemon roll like a champion on this hill. I felt bad that he was sitting in the gutter, that someone could drive him. He returned to the lemon, picked it up and brought it home.

People keep telling Sakasegawa to turn lemonade into lemonade, or some other delicious treat. But for the moment, he'll just let him be a lemon.