This anime. It made me rethink life in many different ways. It made me think about living my life more to the fullest. The main characters, Decim (pronounced dekum) and Chiyuki, reminded me of Ruic and I. Decim was the bartender of the after life who oversaw all the "death games" to see where the two "guests" (recently dead people, usually two at a time) play a game they pick at roulette random. The games are ultimately picked in order to help draw the darkness out of each person to determine whether they go to the void or become reincarnated.
Chiyuki had committed suicide and regretted it, however she forgot her memories when she arrived to the afterlife. On the last episode, Decim recreated her memories in order to figure out how to pass judgement on her. In conjunction with trying to understand her, he ends up experiencing emotions despite he can't or rather shouldn't feel emotion. He breaks down in tears due to how sorrowful he became reacting her memories out. Seeing the sorrow in her mother made me realize how painful it would be if I had committed suicide myself....
So, I'm a little pissed off about Christmas. Lol, I mean, I always kind of was? This year my father decided to give the "daddy-o" (no pun intended) of Christmas gifts to his wife: A new house. It wasn't enough that my Grandfather is on his last leg waisting away, but then my father decided to not only buy a new house farther away from my grandparents, but also leave to go down to Louisiana with his wife for Christmas (who was acting like a spoiled brat because they didn't leave that Monday following Christmas to go down to see all her family at the "big house", when they still needed to get the house setup first before heading down. #dumbass)
Anyways..
So, Christmas to me is just.. Not a cherished holiday in my humble opinion. To be honest (like I'm not already lol), I only celebrate Christmas "recreationaly". In retrospect, I believe the holiday is a far distant representation of what it should be about (mostly friends and family spending time together), but instead it's driven by capitalistic profit, fear, and peer pressure. And on top of that it gives a poor excuse for most of America to grow a heart and donate, volunteer, or provide the smallest dose of humanity all based upon a season/day instead of being that type of person year round.
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| Christmas in a Nut Shell |