Not going to lie, I cried reading this right after sobbing my eyes out after reading this manga. Currently I’m a freshman studying electrical engineering and computer science at a top university in America, and I’m heading down on this “easy path” to a stable job and life. I’ve had thoughts of just getting this damn degree to make my parents happy and then getting hell out of this country. Then I could make money as I travel from country to country by dabbling in things here and there, but even this might be a farfetched dream. It’s only been three weeks of college so far, but I hope I can finally take control of my own life, and I wish you the best so you can do the same.
ti mando tanto incoraggiamento e spero che tu riesca un giorno a riprendere la penna e ritrovare la tua passione per la scrittura nonostante tutto sembri che vada contro di te. Capisco perfettamente della tua scelta di studiare qualcosa che ti possa offrire più sbocchi lavorativi (?) ma che poi ti spegne dentro e ti fa odiare tutto (sono nella stessa situazione), per questo non starò qua a fare l'idealista e dirti di mollare tutto e seguire i tuoi sogni, solo che se davvero solo ad immaginare il tuo futuro ti deprime forse è meglio se cominci a guardare per qualcos'altro, magari anche fuori dall'Italia.
listened to song it was amazing (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
I loved this. To be very honest with you, I started reading this manga because yoasobi made a song directly inspired by this story and the lyrics really hit me because of my personal story. Now that I'm reading the manga, I feel the lyrics even more. I can understand why it's so inspirational, enough to make you write a whole song about it and yoasobi excelled incredibly at that. The song is called 群青 (Gunjou/Ultramarine) by the duo Yoasobi. The song is really blue, just like what Yatora saw that morning in Shibuya, you guys should definitely check it out!
I'm 22 years old and I gave up writing when I was in middle school. Ever since I was a kid I enjoyed reading and writing a lot so my mother always jokingly said that I was going to become a famous writer... because of that I thought she was going to be supportive. As I grew up, my mother became harsher about my passion, saying that I should stop wasting my time and start studying things that will actually get me a job and have a decent life.
I still remember how much it hurt me when I was 11 and I told her that my italian teacher (I'm italian so it's just lit teacher ) praised my essay (not sure if I should call it "essay", I can't think of the corresponding english word of what exactly it was) by saying that it was full of ideas and imagination and giving me almost a full mark, but my mother instead laughed at me and said that most likely the teacher was saying nicely that I always have my head in the clouds and even scolded me saying I shouldn't get distracted in class. It really destroyed me but I'm sure by now she doesn't even remember saying it anymore, yet it was something that really marked my life.
That and many other things made completely give up and lose any interest I had in writing, poetry and literature because my mother and, honestly my entire country, think that humanities (especially in university) are a waste of time and money and even mock people who study them. Isn't it kind of ironic, knowing that Italy is know as a "country of art", yet any type of artist or passionate about art is seen as the lowest scam and loser? So yeah... now I'm in university studying something that I hate, not knowing when or if I'll get a job, that I'll hate and with a low salary.
Seeing Yatora working so hard to achieve his own dream makes me so proud and sad at the same time. I will always root for him because I know for experience what is like to have no one rooting for you.