About Christianity

i love to watch anime and read (and write) stories. for some reason, they appeal to me. not only because you can escape from reality and go into a world of excitement, but because in anime i see the relationship of other people being very close. in anime (especially those where there are tons of fighting like bleach and naruto), usually we see a group of people who are very close and bonded together.

as i watch the anime, i kind of admire that, and wish i could be like that too. friends that are always there for you, to help you when you are in need, to laugh with you and to cry with you (of course i don't cry in front of others). friends that will risk their life for you. of course in our world, we don't really need friends to risk their lives for us. but what i mean is, do we have friends that are that close to us? we are not talking about the kind of sudden situation where either you save someone or let him die such as a near-accident on the road. i am talking about stepping into a situation willingly to help your friend. do we have friends like that?

unlike anime, our friends don't usually walk the same path as us, and as such we lost contact slowly. we made new friends and forgot old friends, and when we go to the next stage of our life we do the same thing again. are our friendship so weak? i myself don't know how long can the bond of me and my closest friends last. one by one all of my closest friends are going overseas for studies, and finally after around 8 years or so together we will be separated for prolonged periods of time. this then, will the friendship fail?

stories, and anime tend to have a happy ending. you get your friends back, the bond is not broken, one friend goes all out to maintain the relationship. but in real life, it is hard. friendship requires the effort of 2. if 1 is not keen, the bond is weaken and finally breaks, because we don't only have friendship to maintain. we have to work, study and maintain other bonds. usually, we see people giving up because it is simply too troublesome, or simply because the other side has no initiatve to communicate. but if this happens all the time, will we have a fairytale-like relationship? i myself wish i can have bonds that strong like those in anime. i have close friends here and there as i move on each stage of my life, but they are always gone at the end of that stage. in the end, only 3 friends remain from way back when i was still a kid. and now i am seeing them off one by one at the airport as they pursue their life overseas. the bonds between the 4 of us are the closest to a story-like situation, but not that close. this is afterall a reality. and i am going to try and keep it.

what about you? do you wish to have strong bonds with your friends like that in fairytale, anime, or stories? or do you already have them? it stirs my heart everytime i see that kind of situation, myself wishing that i can be like them too. there are more important things in this world other than money, romance, computer games, career, the strive to be the top. these are all important, and i myself will chase after this things too. but more importantly, is the bonds. money can be earned back, career can be rebuilt, there will always be someone above you, but you don't get a story-like bond everyday. maybe once you missed it, you may never have the chance again. don't sacrifice something important to chase after the not so important things. i am not saying money and career is not important, but bonds are more important. so i hope that those who read this will get your own fairytale-like bond and keep it that way.