Near and far Otaku enjoy their shows, have emotional connection to stories, and a imaginative amount of bright colors, but there is one more thing that is common with them, because of the overwhelming commitment of time of being alone watching or reading, being alone creating cosplay, and being alone collecting and recording items that the life of that person outside of animanga takes a major blow. This can be seen from the mindset, or the confidence of the individual from lacking social skills along with hygiene, or even the situation of not many options due to social restrictions from so much time committed to the animanga itself rather than with the people who enjoy it.
If this isn’t the case and life is dandy with lots of accepting friends, truthful opinions with an argument here and there, everything socially is moving forward with little to no effort, then maybe this article might not have much insight on relatable problems. But, for many people starting from the bottom is relatable: with having no job, no money, no friends, no plan, and minimal interests, minimal experiences, and minimal exposure. In this case it is suggested to read forward in ideas that might be interesting to see from a bottom up fight perspective. Recluse, is the very word that comes to mind, but its not as simple as stating someone who has a solitary hobby in the confinement of their home. Many watched a bunch of shows and read alot of Manga and before they knew it several years past, there might be regret if the stories were junk, or lost hope from the opportunities in the what ifs, or confusion of what to do socially after deciding that animanga was their thing. People lose their way sometimes and end up being in a position of a recluse without intentionally intending to. Effects of the interest, reading a book or viewing a video online or off can have a few effects if it is taken to the extreme as anything else, balance is the best. Its important to note the effects are not unique to otaku and it can happen to anyone who lets themselves go in the ways of binge watching or reading and eventually eating as well. So what exactly do many otaku go through? some explain that it feels like a frozen state in social activity and stunted social performance, or a new identified set of values of being reserved in opinion with reluctantly in actions in fear of outcomes of judgement from other otaku. It gets worse with some taking it so bad that the feeling is described as paralyzed by all the negative what ifs that could come their way from the present, the past, and ultimately consuming more animanga, and drinking to forget all the pain that just occurred to give a relapse of al the negative feels. A lack of social skills makes this increasingly difficult, but that would be the first skill to go out and learn before trying to be truthful to the ideas from the inside. It all starts with a commitment to standing up to the life path. Everyone can face life head on or run from it, but with commitment the journey will begin through self understanding. Its crucial to understand everything from the inside before trying to understand other people, before trying to make those emotional connections, and it plays an important to friendship and relationships for work, romance, and play. With hard work and dedication it is possible for the person to become their own shining light and become better at sociallizing, build social connections, value talking with people and asking them questions, overcome judgement of others who are not important in meaning to the individuals life, and have more positive outlooks of the possibilities they could do in the present in a new light, the future, and having plans to make sure their is a sense of reassurance of readiness to goals. Taking a stand, making a promise to try and overcome the social challenges that so many give in to, even if it hurts at the moment, even if it doesn't seem like the right time, even if everything is a void. Taking a chance of your feelings being hurt again will be the push that is needed to make the change. Instilled is the otaku passion that was gained from so much isolation that is essential in garnering strong ideas and feelings that won’t be accepted by most, however there is no identity in watered down colors by being overly accommodating to others. Knowing the difference from letting everyone's decisions overrunning whats important to the person and whats taking all ideas into consideration while deciding in a decision is the difference between building a bridge of common ideas that holds a group together and a long lasting friendship. Looking inwards, better understanding the difference from selfish authority, self care, and self neglect. Putting the best from the inside by having self respect is the only way to step up, or risk not being able to step up for your friends and loved ones from a lack of not having it all together first. The greatest interest could be the greatest foe, since the freedom of choice along with ego allows many impulse watches, impulse reads, and impulse decisions in general. Sometimes it takes time to smash ego and understand that impulse is bad for the person, even if it feels right, even if it is a commanded choice, even if it is desired from impulse. The hardest part answering whats inside would come from allowing change into ones life, since many Otaku spend many years watching shows and reading manga before finding themselves off track. Many are not sold on the idea for a need to change, most otaku find that the feeling of ever fleeting passion in their hobby to justify their decision, or the ego of saying everything is perfect the way it is without giving it serious thought, or a simple dodge of the idea altogether for the option of feeling safe and comfortable. But if seclusion and anxiety is the desire, so be it, we all have a choice. However to face life head on? feelings change and there are battles to fight. Desired changes take awhile to actually be a goal, since there is so many thoughts, so many conflicting ideas going on in the thinking process that it can be sort of overwhelming, many people write it out on paper to sort out their thoughts, due to the overwhelming barrage of ideas. When finally obtained a desire to change it helps to understand that naturally viewed changes are imagined in large chunks. Smaller changes are viewed only as a unimportant success, even though most success comes in the small changes. Its hard to wrap around the idea that change comes in small steps, change is sometimes the opposite of what is the persons current lifestyle, life style must evolve and change to have desired outcomes be true, beating oneself up is self bullying, getting impatient and frustrated without dedication and practice. Everything is a choice, its a choice as well to know that people are allowed or not allowed in the persons life, what thoughts are in the mind of the person of good, bad, or inspiring. By doing all these things it takes an emotional stand and to be in control of mind and body. There is still control in a vastness of submitting to change with its dedication and hard work. The situation changes, the feelings change, including passion, and a whole new world opens in a chance to decide once again in the journey of forever evolving ideas of life for the individual. With each persons spoken word, each absorbed piece of knowledge, and other peoples ways of life will all be influential in coming out in thoughts and discussion. Discussions is important to knowing what others are thinking and its not possible to read other peoples minds. There are many things that help in honest discussions, keep in mind honest means many times the conversation may have conflicts and arguments to better understand where the other is coming from, but those are all parts of socializing that is needed to communicate. There might be a innate feeling to just watch how everything plays out, but life isn't animanga and there is no turning to the next page or episode unless a discussion is made and responded to in a thorough manner of attentive listening and question asking. When conflicts occur through honest discussion it prevents most problems before they become problems. Conflicts will bring out all that is different in beliefs, but this isnt a bad thing, since it will allow things to consider when making decisions alone or with the other. It helps to bring both people closer to one another to where they want to be in the relationship, which is thought of and considered in decisions. Give people room to make mistakes while remembering that low standards give low results, high standards give high results, and unrealistic standards give heightened disappointment to all who are involved. After collecting feelings and knowledge the building of go-to sources of inspiration becomes possible. Things to watch, things to read, things to listen to, people to talk to, and return to for ideas that make the idea of staying still a rare one. Straying away from the natural overwhelmed problems that leave people anxious and lacking in control and taking aim at one at a time, one by one, small part by small part. This makes a place to return to, a place to stop and restart, a place to finally start from. Taking the time to settle lifes path and straightening a personal way of fighting it will be a feeling unlike anything of the previous way, a path that was ages away from unlocking the life path. Thinking about why things have changed the way they have in their fates, thinking of the feeling of a soul released while the heavy rains continue to come, looking into the mirror with the feeling of looking back again with knowing how far the person has come.
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