H&C -> EL MEJOR ANIME QUE EXISTE; y la mejor banda de sonido.

For usagijen, letting go is what strikes close to her heart… you do get a certain strength and freedom from letting go that’s hard to describe, and it’s greatly inspiring. =) For you Lupus, your feelings lean more towards seeing the positive aspects of mistakes than the negative. Good for you. Just keep moving forward and growing with each trial is what you’re focused on and inspired by, because whatever plucks your heart is a different subject than letting go. Not that one’s better or worse than the other, your walk and struggles are just different.

I guess I’m trying to say this: People and anime are interesting.

Kudos to the brilliant writing of the Honey & Clover series for telling so many heart-touching truths in one story.

The memories don’t fade, but the emotions do. And when they do, I think back with a smile and say, “well, that was a fucking cool ride.” When most people say “insight” or “enlightenment” what they mean is “perspective.” Time passes and what was important then becomes less important now.

You and ghostlightning certainly made me rethink the concept that “Time heals”. Won’t be the whole process of ‘fading of painful memories’ be healing in itself? Or I’m just being nitpicky lol.

But yeah, as you’ve said, once something happens, it will forever be part of you, memories they might be or what, but instead of being emotional baggages, they should be there as ‘checkpoints’ (breadcrumbs?) of our lives, something to look back to and see how things have changed, how far we’ve changed, since then

@Lupus: well ‘letting go’ is pretty much the first step to ‘growing up’. I guess it’s got something to do with the inherent difficulty of doing this seemingly simple task, that by the time you have ‘let go’, it comes with a whole lot of insights and enlightenment, making you a better person in the process

Up!! Have to wait a few more weeks before it gets shown here, you’ve made me even more excited for it now ^_^

Actually, I feel ‘letting go’ is – to me personally, at least – a small and less significant part of a greater message. That message is that growing up is not only about letting go, but also about learning from those painful and bitter experiences so that you can become a better person. Ayumi and Rika had to learn to let go, but I feel in contrast Hanamoto-sensei, Takemoto and, to a lesser extent, Nomiya, Morita and Kaoru, who internalised and learnt from those experiences, treasuring them and letting them become their strength, are much better and more positive characters.

Long, rambling and badly structured sentence is long, rambling and badly structured.

Speaking of moving on and letting go, watch Disney-Pixar’s Up. My second most favourite animated movie of all time.

it’s a slow and steady process, the healing. It’s not something that would happen overnight, no matter how much conviction you put into that decision.

What If THIS is the Best Route for me, etc. But life doesn’t work that way.

These, to me, are Real Deal truths that few stories of any medium deal with as well as H&C. In drama there is always a moment where things turn around, and we tend to be unfair to ourselves when we don’t have those moments, but it’s an unreasonable expectation. In truth, it’s only time. And maybe it’s true, that quote that time doesn’t heal but rather just makes the memory weaker as it gets farther away (another Takemoto concept), but either way there is no moment where the rainclouds clear up and the sunshine appears.

Anyway… I love that H&C inspires such personal, insightful posts, and I love that you wrote this one. Whatever it is, you will never exactly close the book on it, but as it gets further it becomes a part of your life rather than something that continues to hurt so strongly. I guess that’s what makes us grow, right?

Uhh… I promised at the end of my post I’d stop this. Can we get a fart joke in here?