The things about Life Journey and why it's also related to Anime (By AniMazing!)

Hello, Elite Anime.

How was your day everyone?

I hope this thread would help to inspire, brighten or maybe motivate your day a little bit 🌼

Today I would like to discuss Life Journey and how it's also part of the most influential thing in Anime Characters. You must be familiar with the words of Life Journey and how it's also influenced us in our life. We as a living being must have gone through the hardships, fallen efforts, failures, and regrets, but we eventually realize that it all lead us to learn about something and how these steps bring us to the process of developing our characters.

"Life is not always beautiful, but it's always worth fighting for." I believe how we as a human are the one who held the key in our lives. We choose what we want to be, what drives us, and what motivates us. I happened to come across reading a great article by some great author who spoke about Life Journey and shares many useful and meaningful values about it.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." - Lao Tzu

Tragedies change the course of our life. They bring into the light our faults and weaknesses which would otherwise remain undetected. Like Shakespeare said in Julius Caesar in the words of Brutus, We are underlings.” Everything good or bad that comes into our life is because of who we are. We attract not what we want but who we are and if we are to attract better people and circumstances, we must build those qualities in ourselves. We must become one with our ideal dreams and desires. Creator of the universe has made us in such a way that we must move on in our life or perish. All the experiences in our life good and bad come to teach us things that we must learn at the moment, apply the information and get on with what we must do. Each of us are here to perform the work of the creator. Finding your dreams and reaching your destination.

Conclusion: We have to find our own way because "Life is a journey, not a destination."

How about Anime itself? 

Anime also holds the similar way of life as us when it comes to developing their characters. Starts from the bottom and reach the top of their life. They have to face many obstacles, difficulties, tragedies, disappointments, regrets and sometimes a pain to lose someone they dear in order to achieve their dreams and find their existential reasons.

Many characters we come across in our minds and how these characters deserve to earn our respect because of how they never run out of spirits to fight for what they believe, their sacrifices, their optimism, their strong-willed, their motivation and their positivity, it's all why we should consider these characters as "admirable characters."

Uzumaki Naruto 

Anime : Naruto, Naruto Shippuden

Naruto is a shinobi of Konohagakure and a descendant of the Uzumaki clan. He became the Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tails on the day of his birth, a fate that caused him to be shunned by most of Konoha throughout his childhood. After joining Team Kakashi, Naruto worked hard to gain the village's acknowledgment all the while chasing his dream to become Hokage. In the following years, through many hardships and ordeals, he became a capable ninja regarded as a hero both by the villagers, and soon after, the rest of the world, becoming known as the Hero of the Hidden Leaf. He soon proved to be one of the main factors in winning the Fourth Shinobi World War, leading him to achieve his dream and become the village's Seventh Hokage.

Monkey D. Luffy 

Anime : One Piece

Also known as "Straw Hat Luffy" and commonly as "Straw Hat", he is the founder and captain of the increasingly infamous and powerful Straw Hat Pirates, as well as one of its top four fighters. When he was a kid, Luffy met with a Pirate name Shanks and in such short period, they've become friends. Luffy was fond of Shanks and always wanted to join him on his journey but Shanks rejected as he believed that Luffy was too young to become a pirate. Then such unfortunate incident happened, and Shanks lost his arm. Before leaving, Shanks gave Luffy his hat as a token of friendship and ever since that day Luffy promised to himself that he would become the greatest pirate in the world. His lifelong dream is to find the legendary treasure left behind by the late Pirate King, Gol D. Roger. He believes that being Pirate King means having the most freedom in the world. After his invasion of Totto Land and actions against the Yonko Big Mom, he is currently considered by the global press to be the Fifth Emperor.

Goku 

Anime : Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z

Goku was far from a typical young boy, he was born with an extraordinary power that was totally Superhuman. His life changed forever when he met Bulma for the first time. With Bulma, he faced many fights, enemies, challenges, and friends along the way. Goku searched the Dragon Balls around the world and was able to become powerful. However, it was revealed that he was a Saiyan, a member of an alien race of warriors who hire themselves out as mercenaries to tyrants who depopulate worlds. And he is amongst the last four (well, eight) of his kind. Although originally sent to devastate Earth (though it was later revealed his father Bardock sent him to Earth to escape Frieza's genocide of the Saiyans), he instead becomes the savior of the world multiple times. Eventually, embracing his Saiyan heritage, Goku became the first man in millennia to become a Super Saiyan. And from that point onwards, he just kept getting stronger.

Sawada Tsunayoshi 

Anime : Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

Before he becomes the Highest Rank Mafia Boss gang called Vongola, Tsuna is a crybaby and a total coward. But ever since he met with an Arcabaleno baby name "Reborn" who was accidentally hired by his mother to become Tsuna's private tutor, his life started to change, as Reborn informed him that he will be the next boss -- "Vongola Ten" and pushed him through his limits to become a stronger person. Therefore with Reborn and the others Vongola Family, Tsuna faced many things that never happened to his life; many dangers, many enemies, many hardships, many changes and deep realization towards "Family" that finally made Tsuna decide his true resolve; to become a strong individual and to protect all his "Family" by all costs.

Edward Elric 

Anime : Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood

Edward is a Strong-willed and Genius Alchemist, he achieved a title of "Fullmetal" that is equal to a Major, right away while he was still fifteen years old. He is an independent, stubborn and courageous boy and he strongly believes in his choice. Until he faced the biggest fall in his life while he was performing a forbidden ritual to revive his mother with his brother Alphonse; when this caused him to almost lose his brother Alphonse in the process. He succeeds to retrieved his brother soul but he can't retrieve the body back. And this is when the biggest change happened in Edward life that made him promise to himself that he will dedicate himself to retrieve Alphonse's body no matter it causes. And so it began the journey to find and research on Philosopher Stone, and how the risks and requirements to create a stone is actually a 'human sacrifice', enemies alongside the journeys, and a war that connected with past and Philosopher's Stone and finally, The Truth.

*proud of these characters*

and finally, one quote that might help you towards the process in life 🌼

If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl. But by all means; keep moving. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Message: Have a wonderful day everyone. I hope happiness, luck and strength always helps you through every obstacles and hardship in your life, and see you in the next thread! Cheers!

Question:

1. What is your opinion about life journey? 

2. Have you ever thought about this or have you experienced life journey already? 

3. Do you come across many people to help you on your journey? or do you prefer to solve it on your own? 

4. Have you found your true resolve in your life? What life means to you? 

5. Do you know other anime characters that went through Life Journey as well?

6. Post anime quote that might relate to life journey?