I am 20 and currently attempting to create a balance.
Personal:
I am working toward a certificate of management at my local college (Business).
I am mostly working to fund my taste for chocolate, games, technology, and travel. And to pay off debt.
I love exploring new places, meeting new people, and having new experiences.
I believe awareness of a situation can help prepare one for anything.
I like to be optimistic as I can prepare for the worst while hoping for the best.
I like to explore the interactions that occur in the world. I like theories; I do not like math.
I like philosophy and am working to balance my dreamy, high-thinking portion with my earthy, practical portion.
My likes:
- Music, from Jpop to classical, drum n bass to symphonic power metal, as well as rock operas. And now some folksy tunes. I like a fair bit of music; I am mostly adverse to hip-hop/ rap and country.
- Movies, from blockbusters to indies.
- Learning about things. I like to nerd out occasionally and do heavy research for the sake of knowingy. I think being sentient is cool.
- Agnosticism. Because I don't know.
- The outdoors. Biking/ swimming in the summer and skiing/ skating in the winter. Not much for sports though.
- Exploring new places. I really enjoy travel, and any chance to explore local culture and get to try something different is a lot of fun for myself.
- Computers. The driving force of the information revolution! Also useful for gaming, watching any kind of show, listening to music, decentralized learning, distributing photos, and many other things.
- Games. I prefer RTS and RPG. I also like some FPS and TPS, though I seem to prefer the survival-horror types. And Halo. Also, almost anything that has Sonic the Hedgehog; probably a leftover from my childhood.
- Quantum physics, time travel, Many Worlds Interpretation (Of quantum physics), Loop Quantum Gravity, String theory, and more. I enjoy ideas about the universe, the flow of time, and interaction of things.
- Social studies, and history to a certain extent. Seeing where humans have gone is an interesting way to set the stage for where we might go. The rise and fall, the biggest sucesses and the largest challenges... Different ideologies, being realized and interacting! I enjoy these things.
- Pocky, Hello Panda, and other delicacies.
- There is more, but that is all for now.
My appearance:
- Between 5'7" and 5'8"
- Hazel eyes
- Medium build
- Hair that is varying degrees of red depending on sun exposure
I like anime because it allows me to experience things I may never have a chance to, often because my emotional setup is not designed to create these instances, or because the circumstances depart from the "real world".
Get together? They most certainly did! Maybe not the Chikane and Himeko that we knew, but their reincarnations. It's sort of depressing, really, if you think about it. It had... so much potential. I mean, how does it feel to live knowing that the only way to keep the world going is to sacrifice the person you love the most? It must have been driving Chikane insane. And yes, while her rape of Himeko wasn't... necessary, in a weird, twisted way, I could understand why she would want the other girl to hate her and distrust her. It would make it easier for Himeko to save herself in the end, and ironically, she didn't cater for Himeko returning those affections.
I think the most poignant scene in that series for me was when Chikane climbed into the shrine on the moon and the doors shut close.
"Goal". Her goal was finally getting her mother's love. It was effing depressing. I can't watch that series again.
It's from an anime called Kannazuki no Miko, one that I have a love/hate relationship with. I think... it was a good anime in theory, and then when watching it, you're just going to be like, "Wtf is this??" It's got a bittersweet story about two lovers who are ill-fated (is there any other way to be other than "ill-fated"?). What was a pretty intense romance was destroyed utterly by pointless fanservice and, sadly, even more pointless mecha. Ignoring that, which I was forced to do, I found the characters to be pretty damn good. And yeah, that one girl was supposed to be gay.
Heh, my problem with life is that I relate a little too well with the characters I read or watch. So when I see things that I can never understand and yet they make me feel them, I am always amazed. I for one don't think I'll ever be a parent, but watching Ushio, I just felt this surge of love for her and whenever I saw Tomoya or Nagisa with her, it just made me infinitely happier. I might just be a sensitive sap, but I really feel joy seeing the three of them together.
Oh my God, Air was... just painful. Maybe even too painful. While Clannad might have made me cry more and harder, it was because so many beautiful things happened as well that I couldn't help but cry sometimes from how touching it was. Air depressed me. Really, really depressed me. It didn't break my heart--it just crushed it.
"Goal!" *heart gets crushed*
I don't think I cried for that ending because I was too depressed to do anything.
Ooh, I see. So I take it then, you like to be able to feel those emotions without having to have to experience them in real life? Like, unrequited love? Or a deep loss? I tend to like those too, if that's what you mean. I find myself inwardly cringing these days when I relate too closely to a protagonist in an anime/manga or I am going through similar situations. While I find it impressive that they can illicit such feelings, I am even more impressed by series like Clannad that get me to feel things without me ever feeling them before. I don't know anything about parenthood or marriage, but I felt for Tomoya and Nagisa so much. I don't have a kid, but I damn well feel for Ushio's character as though I were parent and knew exactly what it feels like to lose a spouse and then a child.
:D You see, it's in their song My Girlfriend Who Lives in Canada. That vid I linked you to is just audio. If you want to see one with some visuals, this is the only one that I found. It's an AMV, and well, I found it to be entertaining.
Manly, testosterone-charged sobs and bawling, huh? :P At least as a girl, I get to do the womanly, oestrogen-enhanced crying and simpering. Although I did bawl too :\
Btw, you live in Alberta? *refrains from making Avenue Q joke*
Anyway, it's always nice to see someone really give praise to what it undoubtedly one of the best anime out there (and how Kara no Kyoukai 5 is rated higher than this is beyond me).
