December 9th, 2021
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Anime Relations: Persona 4 the Animation, Persona 4 the Golden Animation
As you, the exactly 0 people who are currently reading this can (can't) tell, I have been quite infrequent in my anime watching in the past... Several years now? This is for several reasons, namely growing up. I'm a decrepit, aging 20 year old man now, with a full-time job. The upshot of this however, is that with age comes far less care about what people think about me watching anime, and so I have recently felt far less inclined to bother "hiding my shame" per se. While I'm still only watching maybe a few episodes a week, it's more than I used to watch for 90% of the year.
So that aside, what's been going on for the past 5 years? Well, I would say a lot, but also not really much. I finished school in 2018 for one, and then TAFE the year after (that's tertiary education in Australia, like a community college)
Since then I've been working, until I wasn't.
In 2020, due to near 0 sales at the store I was working in because of COVID we were shut down for nearly 2 months. This was a pretty difficult time for me. The Australian government would not give me any assistance due to bureaucracy over how franchises work, and that other stores under the same company had not had to close.
During this time, I was struggling with depression and feelings of loneliness, as I quite often had for the past 5 years at that point. I was living with my parents, but due to not having any income at all, I was unable to help them pay for rent, bills or food like usual, and was only able to go outside once a week to get groceries. Sufficed to say, I was not doing well. However, owing to the sheer amount of free time I had on my hands, I decided to tackle something I'd always wanted to try. I sat down with my vita and with some of the little spending money I had remaining, bought a copy of Persona 4 Golden. For the next 2 and a half weeks, I was completely engrossed. I played the game until the battery ran down every day, then charged it back up and kept going. In one of the darkest times I've lived through, it was basically the only light I had. It was the perfect case of being in the right place at the right time; the social simulation elements, the wonderful music, the engaging turn-based battle system all worked together in perfect harmony to lift me up and change my outlook on the worst time I'd ever had.
I don't mean to gush and I know for a fact this is something generally considered cringeworthy to say, but Persona 4 changed my life, and following my completion of it, I began taking steps I never had before. A little over a year later and for the first time in my entire adolescence, I could reply in earnest "good!" when somebody asked me how I was doing. Having struggled with mental health for so many years, it's still a rather strange feeling admittedly, and of course laying the responsibility squarely on Persona would be ridiculous, but it's absolutely not a stretch at all to say it kickstarted a monumental change in my perspective.
Sorry that this blog update has been sort of a mess of oversharing and emotion without much of a point, but hey, nobody reads these anyway right? Nice to type into the void every so often. Who knows when the next time I update will be? Not me, that's for sure.
So that aside, what's been going on for the past 5 years? Well, I would say a lot, but also not really much. I finished school in 2018 for one, and then TAFE the year after (that's tertiary education in Australia, like a community college)
Since then I've been working, until I wasn't.
In 2020, due to near 0 sales at the store I was working in because of COVID we were shut down for nearly 2 months. This was a pretty difficult time for me. The Australian government would not give me any assistance due to bureaucracy over how franchises work, and that other stores under the same company had not had to close.
During this time, I was struggling with depression and feelings of loneliness, as I quite often had for the past 5 years at that point. I was living with my parents, but due to not having any income at all, I was unable to help them pay for rent, bills or food like usual, and was only able to go outside once a week to get groceries. Sufficed to say, I was not doing well. However, owing to the sheer amount of free time I had on my hands, I decided to tackle something I'd always wanted to try. I sat down with my vita and with some of the little spending money I had remaining, bought a copy of Persona 4 Golden. For the next 2 and a half weeks, I was completely engrossed. I played the game until the battery ran down every day, then charged it back up and kept going. In one of the darkest times I've lived through, it was basically the only light I had. It was the perfect case of being in the right place at the right time; the social simulation elements, the wonderful music, the engaging turn-based battle system all worked together in perfect harmony to lift me up and change my outlook on the worst time I'd ever had.
I don't mean to gush and I know for a fact this is something generally considered cringeworthy to say, but Persona 4 changed my life, and following my completion of it, I began taking steps I never had before. A little over a year later and for the first time in my entire adolescence, I could reply in earnest "good!" when somebody asked me how I was doing. Having struggled with mental health for so many years, it's still a rather strange feeling admittedly, and of course laying the responsibility squarely on Persona would be ridiculous, but it's absolutely not a stretch at all to say it kickstarted a monumental change in my perspective.
Sorry that this blog update has been sort of a mess of oversharing and emotion without much of a point, but hey, nobody reads these anyway right? Nice to type into the void every so often. Who knows when the next time I update will be? Not me, that's for sure.
Posted by No0by | Dec 9, 2021 2:55 AM | 1 comments
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