Archive for May 2014
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Alan
What Do You Think Snow Becomes After It Melts?
What Do You Think Snow Becomes After It Melts?
What first came into my mind was water and then something deeper such as a road with half-melt snow with dirty foot prints on.
Snow would always make me feel like I am back in my childhood when it comes to be only a little amount. It is fun to play with, looks pretty and I would be so amazed by its purity.
Then I however never liked it snowing too much. It is cold, difficult to walk on or see through and it felt like it would never end and completely swallow the whole world I live in.
Snow is just like a struggle. A small one would be easily manipulated and controlled within the ability we have and collectively give us satisfaction of achievement. But how about a big one? It is too big so that you cannot even think a way out and feel like you would always be living, stuck in this sticky situation that makes you feel demotivated and helpless.
The question was asked from a character of Fruits Basket, called Hatori Shoma. He asks to another character called Tohru Honda who is the main character of the anime and a kind hearted high school student at the start of the story.
Hatori Shoma asks;
"Tell me, when the snow melts, what does it become?"
Then Tohru answers;
"Ah...um, well...hmm. It becomes spring! No matter how cold it is now, spring will come again! Without fail. It's strange isn't it? But it's true."
This was a very awkward moment to realise that I have actually learnt something about the cycles we all go through in our lives.
This character, Tohru, might sound like she is speaking of her stupidity from not knowing the struggles but only the bright sides of this world. She however is an orphan, lives in a tent on a mountain and her mother, who has raised her alone and who was the only family she had died from a car accident.She surely seems like a person who can speak of negativity of her life but then she still chooses to live her way, saying that there will be no struggle that will always revolve her life and says that there will be spring after the snow without even a single failure.
Snow, or the struggle, I say, never go on infinitely. It does certainly stop and we even forget about why we were struggling for such a long time.
This just is a post to prove one of the major reasons why I am so addicted to animes.
They might not be a real life, but it surely does depict scenes of the reality.
