Its Just A Thought...

Living Another Life and the Importance of Stories.

10:34 pm

5/28/2023

I just finished watching another anime. I've watched a bit too much, and people might call me a 'weeb,' which is fine. At this point, I think I've watched about 130+ individual series (200+ if you count the seasons for every single series). There were, of course, a lot of good stories, and some that were not that good. 

  I'm writing this to explain something on my mind. Don't you ever feel like watching something, like a series, for example, you feel like...

You were there?

You were with those characters, you've seemed like you've had personal connections with them? Maybe it's because I've watched too much, Maybe I just yearned to live their life.

But whenever I finish an anime these days, I feel like I was there, I feel like I was part of the story. Through all their sorrows, through all their pain, I lived through it, despite the truth being that, I wasn't there. 

I feel like listening and watching stories can shape who you are. When I see a character I love live through trial and get the fruits of their labour, it makes me want to be like them. It's honestly a great feeling.

I was getting this feeling recently, where I lived many lives, a mash of all the stories I've seen mixing into my mind and inserting myself in them. Sometimes I want to stay in them.

I feel like the phrase: "Reality is often dissapointing" is true to an extent.

There are nights where I feel like I want to try to do my life all over again. That the world is too dull and boring not like the fantasy stories I've read about. You want to be the main character so bad, you want to feel what they feel in the moment. You want to be as strong as them.

But all you see is yourself looking at a screen late in the night watching them get through their problems while you sit there and grovel at tomorrow. It's dissapointing, its disheartening. But we all carry on. We all live.

But life isn't all that bad you know?

Stories can offer so much. People can use it to transmit a message they've learned. They can teach, they can lighten the mood. They can do so much such as escaping reality like I am now. 

I guess I wanted to write about this is because I was imaging living a more "exciting" or "fun" life in some other world in the hundreds of shows I've watched. I wanted to out of this life, I wanted to escape this life. I wanted to start all over again.

I have a lot of people I love in this life however, they're the reason I keep looking ahead.

Bottom line:

Stories are essential to develop your character. They can change your ideals and your views on things. Read more, Listen more, experience more, understand more, and write your own stories. Even if one person is even mildly interested, it helps shape who you are. 

Write your story. Make it worth it.