Was Iseyama / Isayama forced to change the ending of Attack on Titan? I read somebody post about this on here a while ago. I watched some of season 1 back in 2013 when it was just coming out and became super popular, but I ended up stopping after that and haven't watched it further. I was looking at the artwork and watching some scenes from the rest of the show recently and I know about some of the spoilers (though I don't really understand the context because I only watched some of the beginning), but from what I've seen and know the ending and general mood of the story at or towards the end seems so bleak and hopeless. I remember in the beginning of the show when I watched it how invigorating and inspiring and motivating it was, there was this strong theme of hope and overcoming an incredibly unfair and hopeless situation, the world of the story where humans live in terror of the titans and are eaten by them and have everything taken from them, but still choose to train and fight. What I've seen about the ending and later parts of the story seems so hopeless and like it's purposely trying to break the spirits of the audience and to try to tell people that the initial message of the story of "fighting with determination to overcome such unfair circumstances" was wrong and that people shouldn't want to become powerful, even if they were first victims and suffered at the hands of others, and that wanting to become powerful and overcome oppression is wrong. This makes me think that whoever said Iseyama was forced to change the ending was right. The person who said that said that it was because he "disclosed" too much occult/conspiracy/hidden information through his work, and was forced to sabotage the ending as a result. Do any of you think this is true? I can see it being true, especially given the recent events like the epstein files being released and basically confirming that our world is ruled and controlled by child killing and eating pedophiles.
>>42565466>like it's purposely trying to break the spirits of the audience and to try to tell people that the initial message of the story of "fighting with determination to overcome such unfair circumstances" was wrong and that people shouldn't want to become powerful, even if they were first victims and suffered at the hands of others, and that wanting to become powerful and overcome oppression is wrong. And also that wanting freedom is wrong. Lots of religions do this too, most religions are just about a transactional relationship with a particular deity, or claiming that a particular deity is above all other deities, and do so in various ways. Christians say that Yahweh is god and all the other gods were created by him, Krishna devotees say that Krishna said that he is the original form of god and the causeless cause of all causes (but Shiva devotees say the same thing about Shiva, word for word, and Hinduism is full of conflict between personalist schools arguing that their deity is supreme, as well as impersonalist schools claiming that the supreme is unable to be defined, or that everything originates from the Self). The only religion that advocates for doing good for the sake of doing good, without also demanding subservience to another being, is Buddhism, but the end goal of Buddhism is basically metaphysical suicide, annihilation of one's own existence, or "final extinguishment" as they call it. The only religion that actually says humans can become gods is Taoism. So why is there always such an obsession by religious people to subjugate others and demand that others join them in their subjugation? It's like religious people use their concept of god or their particular deity and religion as a weapon to dominate and subjugate and harm others. We objectively are created with no knowledge of reality. Every religion says multiple directly conflicting things. So why do so many beings (gods and their human followers) want to take away others' freedom?
>>42565496>The only religion that actually says humans can become gods is Taoism. So why is there always such an obsession by religious people to subjugate others and demand that others join them in their subjugation? It's like religious people use their concept of god or their particular deity and religion as a weapon to dominate and subjugate and harm others. We objectively are created with no knowledge of reality. Every religion says multiple directly conflicting things. So why do so many beings (gods and their human followers) want to take away others' freedom? There are also people who say that we are gods who chose to come to this realm, and that we can even give birth to gods and spirits by impressing ourselves upon the astral light. And one person added to this theory that the reason we are here is because the creator or ruler of this specific realm will cease to exist if no one is present within this realm to observe it, so the ruler of this realm keeps creating ways to trick people into voluntarily returning here. So why is there such a great effort by so many parties (gods, their human followers, humans who want to control other humans) to impose upon others' freedom? Why is reality basically like a metaphysical pvp game where tons of other players are trying to kill or enslave you? Why is any of this happening?
>>42565466>>42565496>>42565512https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/34163526/#q34177116 >>>34163526>>Did he unknowingly and subconsciously tap into some hidden information while writing his story?>Most likely this, he was probably looking into ideas for the story and had accidentally tapped into the "Akashic records", including some drops of the truth unintentionally. Although given how a lot of subtle redpills came from Japan I wouldn't be surprised if he was given some breadcrumbs as well.>>>34167115>He had to completely ruin the story (or was simply given the script) so that his studio can keep access to western markets, otherwise they would probably be completely cut off. The very thing which made it popular turned out to be bad for the business. I guess that answers my original question. But I wonder why we can't get out of here, or why this is really happening. I wonder why we were "memory-wiped" before becoming humans.
>>42565496>>42565466There’s a weird dual representation of Jews/ white people being represented by both sides of the story, so to make either side win would have been not allowed, so instead they had to just fuck up the story.
>>42565466At some point after season 3 but before season 4 I decided to pick up the manga. What a weird time to do that. The thematic shift might have even been more dramatic for me this way because I kept thinking>is this even the same fucking story? What the fuck?But I think the thematic changes regarding hopelessness had kind of woven their way into the story before that. Eren is a kid at the beginning and believes that with enough hard work and friendship, they can prevail. There’s a big cast of characters, because anime, but AoT is ultimately a story about Eren. And Eren gets BRUTALLY fucking blackpilled.Does the audience have to get blackpilled with Eren too? I didn’t particularly get demoralized by the direction of the story or what happened to Eren.I don’t believe the powers that be want to encourage us to meaningfully oppose any established power structures and I do believe that the ending of AoT was likely forced upon the author for one reason or another.But I also think it was generally a fucked up story that was really going to dive into bleakness either way.If you like stories with happy endings out of such ridiculous tragedy, JJK is going to work out for you. Just finished the manga on that earlier this year.
>>42565496>The only religion that actually says humans can become gods is Taoismunknowably based also, bump
>>42565496All is one is infinite anon. You, me, we, the rocks on the ground, all God, all participating in and co-creating the totality of phenomenon and experience.Advaita Vedanta holds that only Nirguna Brahman, attributeless, unchanging consciousness, is ultimately real.The world is Maya: not absolutely unreal, but a superimposition arising from avidyā (ignorance). The practical risk is subtle dualism, treating liberation as escape to something hidden behind experience, which can entrench the seeker/sought structure it's trying to dissolve.Madhyamaka Buddhism holds that all phenomena are empty of intrinsic existence (Śūnyatā) and arise dependently (pratītyasamutpāda).These are not two things but one truth from two angles. The practical risk is nihilism, mistaking the negation of intrinsic existence for the assertion of nothing.Neo-Vedanta (Vivekananda, Radhakrishnan) resolves the Advaita tension by making Saguna Brahman, the world as active expression of Brahman, genuinely real. Maya becomes not illusion but misperception of the world as independent from Brahman.This brings it structurally closer to Madhyamaka and process philosophy.The resolution: Nirguna Brahman and Śūnyatā are both pointing at the same ineffable suchness (tathātā) from opposite directions, one affirmative, one negative.Neither is wrong; both are pedagogical tools whose opposition dissolves at the limit. The "ninth view" of the catuskoti, the viewless view, is where they converge.Calling it a Self goes too far; calling it no-self isn't far enough. What it is, is the freedom required for the possibility of anything. It's God anon.
>>42565927I would also add that, very notable, the characters in JJK do not meaningfully defeat any human power structures other than the Zenitsu clan getting acked. And they weren’t the only evil fuckers around.Without specific spoilers, the characters only defeat the present curse issue and the jujutsu power structure is largely unchanged, if at all.Humans are allowed, in stories, to prevail against natural enemies that resist all of mankind. Even in stories, humans are not allowed to prevail over other oppressive human power structures outside of a very specific set of narrative guardrails.
It was the Jews
>>42565466of course you still had to tie to it about epstain at the end. Here is the thing, a vast majority of people do not give a shit about what happened. In fact they cheer it on for something shocking to talk about and to celebrate the corruption that is bringing down western civilization. Nobody talks about what muslims do, nobody talks about the rape gangs in europe. Nobody gives a shit, they just care whatever the media tells them to care about.As for the ending manga and anime is infamous for having shit endings. They just don't know how to wrap things up. If there was any change to make it feel more hopeless by the powers that be they wouldn't want that. A drowning rat that thinks he is going to be saved swims five times as long.
>>42565496>The only religion that actually says humans can become gods is Taoism.Advaita Vedanta outright tells you that you're God.
being a titan and just having free reign to eat people would be legit a fun thing to experience tho.
>>42566391why do you think they're all just giant frolicking happy retards?
>>42565496>The only religion that actually says humans can become gods is Taoism.Mormonism. LOL.
>>42566422>why are they titans?>because it’s fucking fun, of course!Would have unironically been a better ending kek
>>42565927>But I also think it was generally a fucked up story that was really going to dive into bleakness either way. Maybe you're right about this part. Watching some of the scenes recently that I never saw made me remember how heavy it is from what I did watch back then. I was still a kid at that time so I remember being even more sensitive to how genuinely "dark" and heavy the story was. Even now I was shocked at some of the scenes I watched. I was thinking Japanese people have a really difficult society to live in when they're capable of creating things like this. The mangas "Out" and "Bouncer" have some of the most brutal realism I've ever seen in manga/anime, which I appreciated a lot about them, because they helped me cope a lot during a difficult time in my life. I also know about JJK but I don't like the artstyle and magic system stuff, I'm just more into seinen stories rather than stories with shonen-like power systems. But ty for the recommendation >>42565951I wonder how ancient Chinese people learned cultivation and how to become gods, it's really interesting to me. Especially because our "default settings" are not knowing a lot of things about reality and being able to think of questions to ask about reality that we can't know the answer to. >>42565962>What it is, is the freedom required for the possibility of anything.I think Taoism also says this is what "emptiness" is. I find some of the philosophies you mentioned really depressing because they basically seem like solipsism to me. I just wonder how we can get to a place where we are all happy and there's no suffering or evil and how we can stay there. >>42566072>they just care whatever the media tells them to care about. I find the events that happened disturbing and demoralizing, and I cared about this stuff back in 2019 when epstein allegedly died. i was always into conspiracy stuff when i was younger and openly talked about it on social medias despite irl friends being able to see it
>>42566353>Advaita Vedanta outright tells you that you're God. This would just be depressing to me because it's basically solipsism. It's also the worst of both worlds because not only is it solipsism but you can't even do what you want and have to worry about "earning" money (an artificial concept invented by humans) to survive and avoid homelessness. And be stuck in a body you can't change that can also feel physical pain in a world full of evil people who seem to get away with it (im talking about personal experiences I've had dealing with family members, not just general societal stuff.). Being a god would be better than being the concept of God itself. My Chinese friend told me though that in their native Chinese (not Buddhist) beliefs, they believe that humans live in a lower realm while the gods live in a higher realm and our realm is isolated from theirs, so they can't interact with our realm, and if a god wants to come to the human realm, they have to send down an "avatar", but that avatar wouldn't be able to have the same ability or power as a god in that form, so it would basically be like a regular person. She also told me that humans have creative freedom while we are in the lower realm, and that when you ascend to the higher realms, it's a one-way ticket, you can't go back down. She also told me that they believe that some of their ancestors ascended to the higher realms and fight the other gods to protect their human families on Earth, or something like that if I remember correctly.
>>42566353>>42566746>and our realm is isolated from theirs Sorry, I meant to type "insulated". She said this because I was telling her that I believed a specific god I used to worship growing up was causing bad things to happen to me as punishment for not worshipping Him anymore.
Trying to find this much depth in Attack of Titan is like trying to find gold in a puddle. There's no great conspiracy purely because the story itself is a poorly written vent from the author's violent tendencies which got an unexpected fanbase by equally violent people online. If anything, what happened is a zombie apocalypse story turned into a tonedeaf geopolitical warzone because Isayiama overestimated his competence. The main character commits a genocide because he felt like it and somehow both the fandom and the story pretend it's not as bad as it sounds, character interactions get forced into tropes so the story moves from the stalemate it put itself into (seriously, why did he make Mikasa a love interest instead of a sister figure?), and time travel gets added for some cool moments that fall afart the more you think about them. There's no grandeur or hidden agenda, it's just Isayama being bad. You can also guarantee it's not some finale hijack because some issues are present well since the first chapters: Mikasa not being a character, Eren turning into a titan and completely overshadowing the human struggle story, the Rod Reiss arc in general (funny how people forgot how criticized it was when it came out).Also, ironic how anons are trying to tie in religion and spirituality to this story as if it's not one of the most nihilistic ones ever written. It's literally "80% of the world dies for no reason and the supernatural is actually some Cambrian invertebrate trying to reproduce o algo".
>>42566699>Watching some of the scenes recently that I never saw made me remember how heavy it is from what I did watch back then.Yeah, I agree and was thinking back about that all. I think one giveaway that a bleak ending was in the future was lead through the first 3 seasons without me noticing the first time: Levi.Levi is sort of kept in the background a lot of the time but he gets brutally blackpilled probably before Eren even does. At the beginning he does indeed have hope and believes that being the strongest has meaning, that the lives of his friends have continuous meaning even if they were lost. And then we get his backstory which shows why somebody like him would ever even bother holding out a little bit of hope.But by the end of season 3, he’s fucking done. Even that hope from before is extinguished and he has an attitude of>what the fuck are we even doing here anymore guys? What the fuck is any of this for?He’s led through the rest of the story via his bonds with the other scouts but who he is as a person is more deeply shaken even before that hits Eren properly. It just got overshadowed for me the first time through because that massive tonal shift (with guns and WW2 motif and all) happens right after
>>42566805>which got an unexpected fanbase by equally violent people online. I was gonna write out a carefully thought out reply but this is probably either actual glowie posting or bait lol I was there when I was a kid, it was one of the biggest anime globally, everyone was talking about it back then when it started becoming popular. It's not some obscure guro visual novel with a cult following, it's one of the most popular anime ever made. The level of gaslighting in this statement as well as the other overly emotionally directed criticisms read as glowie posting to me.
>>42566821Isayama clearly had an idea of turning things to the worst well since the earlier chapters, like seriously you don't remember the priest character? His main merit is fooling the audience well enough for some subversions, including the difference between seasons 3 and 4, but it does not feel like someone replaced him or forced to change. If anything, he just wrote a darker side of him which, well, you see how it turns out.
>>42566699>I just wonder how we can get to a place where we are all happy and there's no suffering or evil and how we can stay there.Anon... you don't want that. You only think you do because you still don't understand.The whole point is that that you need both good and bad at the same time in order to have either on their own.This is because one PROVIDES the definition for the other.>We can identify nothing without separating it from what it isn't.We think the presence is real and the absence is unreal, but it only appears that way because experience projects presence outwards, while it inverts absence inwards.The mind is a construct of absence, and absence is the complement of presence.And if every thing is coupled with its negation, then every thing must also be no thing.Both are real. Both are just the extreme ends of a single pole. Like space and time. Two sides of one coin. There is no such thing as good without bad, joy without suffering, or white without black.The hell is a one sided coin anon?>well essentially the same as a one ended poleWell that pole would extend infinitely in one direction then.Nothing infinite is precious.Not even infinite good.If good were infinite and evil were not, then good would no longer be 'good', it would be the norm. It would be status quo. Good only exists in comparison to something bad.True emptiness, true nothing, CANNOT exist.Because by definition it lacks all definitions which in of itself is a definition. To exist means to have a definition.The idea you think of when you say "nothing" is in reality just an absence, just a zero. But a zero is something, an absence is something.True emptiness is true fullness is true emptiness is true fullness is infinity is God and ultimately is an infinite yearning to love and be loved.This is the truth.
>>42566805I found gold in a puddle once. Was encrusted into a small quartz rock. Gave it to a girl I liked. I was really young. She kissed my cheek.
>>42566858Buddy, /x/ has been gone for a good while at this point. Glowies don't even need to try, the board itself already gets polluted with bot posts and people like you who act like scared cats. You think any 3 letter agency would bother with a fucking AoT post on a defunct board? And judging by>when I was a kidI can't imagine you've been here for too long. The reasons AoT got popular worldwide have mostly to do with the good adaptation by WIT, including openings and OSTs, and the fact the first chapter and Reiner twists are well engaging. By the Rod Reiss arc, popularity had plummeted and the only reason it gained traction before season 4 was the basement reveal becoming relevant again. Ironically to what OP said, it's the final arc itself, the one with the most pointless violence and destruction, that gained the most traction online. People only majorly turned against it around 138-139, when they realized it couldn't possibly have a proper conclusion. The anime helped mitigate it just because it portrayed the anti-war message well enough, and because they toned down the final chapter.
>>42566847>But by the end of season 3, he’s fucking done. Even that hope from before is extinguished and he has an attitude of>>what the fuck are we even doing here anymore guys? What the fuck is any of this for? This reminds me of our world It really seems like our world is on a similar level of brutality to the soul I was thinking earlier about a post someone on here wrote that said "Our world is basically the Dark Souls of realms. You get so much clout in the spiritual realm if you can overcome this place."
>>42566865That's sweet anon, thanks. Was it on some mountain or in plain streets?
>>42566892Plain streets but in a mountain county. Near Tahoe in California. Beautiful place, grew up round there.
>>42566886Setting aside his superpowers, I would say that Levi was by far one of the most believable characters in the story. One of only a handful. Since he want a titan or concerned with being one or devoting his life to protecting one, he was just a human in the middle of the massively confusing and violent event. What did Levi want to change about the world originally? I don’t think he was ever as sweepingly ambitious as Eren or even Hange. He just wanted to protect what he loved and brutally fucked up shit kept happening anyway.To your point, he was beloved both in universe and in the fandom because he fought against the bleakness for understandable and relatable reasons.
>>42566906Interesting, literally struck gold. I remember going on a field trip in the mountains and finding mica. It's trivial, but super curious to see its sheaths and low hardness. You have any idea how that gold ended up there? Like, it dropped from a miner's pocket?
>>42566863>The whole point is that that you need both good and bad at the same time in order to have either on their own. >This is because one PROVIDES the definition for the other.>We can identify nothing without separating it from what it isn't. I disagree with this and think it's a cope. To me it's like saying that if a kid who has never eaten candy before eats candy, it won't taste good to him unless he eats a burnt piece of metal first or something. I hate this idea so much because it completely excuses evil and atrocities. It makes it seem like evil itself is a "necessary evil" and I hate that concept. Why do things have to be like this? I think I ruined my life because when I was a serious and strict Buddhist when I was younger (inb4 hippie, I grew up Hindu) I prayed to Avalokiteshvara to help me always be a Buddhist in every future life and never leave Buddhism. I can't erase that religion from my mind. I don't want evil or suffering to exist but ideas like this make it seem like it's inescapable unless I follow Buddhism and stop existing. Why is reality like this? >True emptiness, true nothing, CANNOT exist. So is reality just a schizophrenic Yume Nikki level or something????? (picrel) >True emptiness is true fullness is true emptiness is true fullness is infinity is God and ultimately is an infinite yearning to love and be loved. I don't understand how this is compatible with duality, because if the single ultimate thing is love, how does that work with duality that says love is the opposite of hate?
>>42566924Probably not a miner. But just some other lucky fellow who was recently very unlucky. I guess it was just my turn with it.
>>42566916>To your point, he was beloved both in universe and in the fandom because he fought against the bleakness for understandable and relatable reasons. I liked him again after seeing the scene of him fighting Kenny's squad. I dont really remember much about him from the beginning except that he bullied Eren or something. I really like season 1 Eren because he's like an underdog hero. I have experienced "helpless rage" a lot in my life because of being abused (by an abnormal and particularly evil person) my whole life since I was a kid, and seeing how he's written with the emotion of seeking revenge was really inspiring to me. Especially the way he smiles eerily at the end of the scene where he transforms and kills two titans and just says "I'll kill all of you."
>>42566937>To me it's like saying that if a kid who has never eaten candy before eats candy, it won't taste good to him unless he eats a burnt piece of metal first or something.See just reading that shows me you aren't thinking with enough... "levels?"..."depth?"... not sure how to word it.That kid will like the candy because his brain and taste buds evolved to release pleasure chemicals on taste bud contact with glucose.I know, I know, super nerdy and technical and pedantic but that analogy doesn't fit.Look.It's more like... If I gave you a black piece of paper and and black crayon and told you to draw a house with a sky and some clouds.Would be fucking difficult. Because there's no contrast between anything.Same thing as if I gave you a white paper with a white crayon.Read the image anon. I wrote it out ages ago.
>>42566001Tmi want to learn more about this literary device.
>>42566916>>42566982>with the emotion of seeking revenge Or I mean, more like a strong emotion of seeking "righteous vengeance" and overcoming oppression. Though in the manga "Bouncer", there's a scene where a character says "Where there's no law there is no injustice". It was in a scene after the MC kills some mob boss to protect his client and is traumatized by the fact that he actually killed another psrson, and the other character continues after the first quote by saying "That's why those who kill find out the real reason you shouldn't kill another person. You unfortunately now know that reason." because it messes up a person on the inside. And someone on here also posted something about how evil people basically put themselves in a position to where any realm that isn't a hell would reject them because of the evil things they've chosen to do. So maybe there really is justice. I don't really know if I believe that there is though.
>>42566937good taste is inherent to biology."good" is only "good" when there is also a "bad" for which the "good" is not.a taste is good because its not bad.a taste is dull because its not good or bad.a taste is bad because its not good.
>>42566998The explanation you wrote about the wavelength of the color red and the internal subjective meaning of red made the most sense to me. I just can't logically comprehend the concept that "everything" or infinite things exist. Or more like I can't interpret it. It makes me think reality is basically just one giant Yume Nikki level with random things like picrel. I also don't understand how limitations like being stuck in a body you can't change or a world you can't change or situations you can't escape exist if there are literally infinite possibilities. If there are infinite possibilities, how did we even get to this point in the first place? How did we begin experiencing this specific set of phenomena?
>>42567050this is the reason i can't escape Buddhism. I think I destroyed my life by seriously believing in it. if evil will always be allowed whats the point of existing? Buddhism basically says the only way to be free forever from suffering is to annihilate your own existence. It also apparently says that karma cant be erased or divided. This feels like a nightmare where you realize youre in a nightmare but cant wake up. I cant believe this is happening. I hate religion and human life so much. I cant believe this is reality.
>>42567070I mean... well... kinda yea.But the only reason its this and not nothing is because a lack of everything is still an absence, and the concept of absence needs the concept of presence to even exist in the first place.Like, absence IS "not presence"While presence IS "not absence"Good IS "not bad"Bad IS "not good"Without their antithesis, they themselves are just, not. Poetic play on words here. The sentence structure only coincidentally mirrors the conceptual structure.
>>42565466Iirc people speculated that the original plot had Eren rape Historia and become progenitor to a line that had both founding titan's blood and royal blood. This was from the scene close to the end of the series where Eren visits Historia while she's pregnant. This line would then sustain supremacy over the world after Eren's death. This was rewritten because AOT had a larger following than expected and wanted a more broadly appealing ending.The ending wasn't about resigning to oppressors but resisting the urge to replace one system of oppression with another, which extends from a resistance to oppression in general.
>>42565466>What I've seen about the ending and later parts of the story seems so hopeless and like it's purposely trying to break the spirits of the audience and to try to tell people that the initial message of the story of "fighting with determination to overcome such unfair circumstances" was wrong and that people shouldn't want to become powerful, even if they were first victims and suffered at the hands of others, and that wanting to become powerful and overcome oppression is wrong.Congratulations you just discovered the plot of 99% of media series.Almost all movies, television shows, books, manga, video games, etc. are demoralization campaigns.
>>42566746>it's basically solipsismAnd that's a good thing. >but you can't even do what you wantOnly if you think you can't.
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>>42568617>>42568617>it's basically solipsismIts not.See my breakdown of the branches here: >>42565962
>>42566998>>42566863Thanks for the high effort posts, genuinely extremely insightful. X truly is the best board because of anons like you. Grateful.
>>42573203No problem anon. Brother lifts up brother and we all grow to be better.
>>42567094Nightmare according to what definition? Good and evil according to what definition? Buddhism teaches that you are not the mind nor are you the body, that you must let go of form, thought, fabrications, consciousness. It is a nightmare only because you identify with the thoughts and emotions that tell you it is a nightmare. But if you learn to rest in the present, you realize everything simply is. Heaven is already within you. You choose to perpetuate your own nightmare, your own delusions, your own hell.
Authors are forced to make horrendous endings to demoralize the audience.It's a humiliation ritual, hype something up attract massive attention support care, and then burn it down and mock everyone for ever caring or expecting better.And yeah, attack on titan touches on history resets, history fabrication and the Nephilim from the Book of Enoch, so it was made convoluted to suppress people's awareness of such.
>>42567094>if evil will always be allowed whats the point of existing?Post before this isn't me.The suffering is what gives happiness meaning. Its the backdrop upon which joy is contrasted and thus becomes visible. The suffering deepens your understanding of yourself, and if in the moment, you can see it for what it truly is, personal growth becomes second nature. Life is not something to be held on to or controlled.Living doesn’t mean meticulously clinging to happiness. Hoarding moments and relationships in jars like fireflies. Nor does it mean bartering with fate, offering whispered promises to the stars to keep tomorrow unchanged.Probability is infinite, but only one is most probable, the one that's happening right now. The one with YOU in it. Imagine how improbable it was that your two parents, of all 7.5 billion people in the world, would get together, and of all the millions of spermatozoa which raced for your mothers egg during your conception, YOU came out as you are.Of all the other of outcomes which could have possibly happened instead. Of all the other people who could have been born instead of you. Now imagine how many times this cycle has occurred. Your parents, their parents, their parents- parents and so on. A literal sea of possibility and yet, here you are, you exist, and what an amazing existence it is. What a gift it is to exist. What a privilege it is to experience the textures of life!The contrast between pleasure and pain, sadness and joy... to experience life in all its possibilities.From the feeling of being hungry, to boredom, bliss, grief and back again, I know I was meant to be here. To witness the magnificence of whatever this is... I don't care what it is I'm just glad to be here, & when there is suffering, I take it to heart and learn from it, and cry if I need to.
