It's been almost 2 years since I left home voluntarily after a fight with my mom. With both of us being stubborn I decided to take the initiative to leave everything behind at a place I once called home. I shut myself behind my ambition and drive. Knowingly, the things that I've done, school and work, was all just a distraction.
On a snowless new years alone in my empty apartment within a barren campus on the final week of winter break, I decided to knock this show out because it had a classical music theme to it. I played violin rigorously up to my high school years and I thought it would be nice to respark a side of me that I left behind 5 years ago.
This masterpiece of a show caught me off guard, despite knowing what ultimately happens in the end. It didn't take long for me to become humble and unfreeze my frozen emotions. From episode 4, it was a neverending tearfest whenever an emotional scene was underway. I've never cried so honestly before. Not over a show or how sad the premise of the story was, but due to how relatable it was to what I was currently going through my life.
Not a single soundtrack in the show is happy and uppity as the major key it's in suggests. After my first emotional breakdown, all openings and especially the second ending theme pierced my soul and triggered my eye to water all over again. Never in my wildest dreams I would've expected a show to reach out to me like this.
Remorse, regret, and sorrow. Oh jeez the sorrow, not to mention the lie we tell ourselves everyday to keep ourselves heading towards tomorrow to find whatever it is we want or are looking for.
Like the that of spring, the show thawed away my cold heart and motivated me to take the first step into reconnecting with my old compassionate self. A kid who had dreams and a kid who certainly had a family that loved them. I hope this first step into reconnecting with my family won't be my last.
Just wanted to leave my first impression somewhere on record.
I needed 6 lives to get through this show. 3 of which I lost to the last 2 episodes alone.
