The spirit sea is a world of souls that have passed on from the world living beings live in. Living beings celebrate the lives of those who have gone on to the spirit sea from friendships, families, or importance of meaning. The spirit sea is a way to describe the motion of souls that travel where we can not see them. This is shown in numerous ways in shows on the after life, such as Yu Yu Hakusho.
Many people have passed on from the pressures of life in its bubble of expectation, however living up the expectation without knowing the steps of accomplishments along the way can make a goal overbearing, even if the goal is to get a life or be so called normal. It can hurt the real situation by making a limited perspective and thus limiting the thoughts that go through the persons mind. Anything that comes in the mind at this time will be whispers, ignoring the voices of those trying to save the person from themselves and their limited perspective. Societies expection bubble is so strong that there are actually famous suicide places for such things. Such as in Japan, there is a famous forest where many people who feel the pressures of life go to find an answer with their fate, should they go and think in a secluded area for a battle with death, should they go on living and try again, or should they end all the pain from the world and disapear by committing suicide. Limited perspectives make everything difficult and narrow in sight of the end, but its normal and everyone thinks this way from time to time when things arent going the best, some turn to an out from it all. This can be progressive in nature, such as being antisocial, then self isolation and avoiding people, and lastly to wallow in the depression until it brings thoughts of suicide. This is very relevent in the case of otaku, since there are a large number of otaku to go to animanga as a escape and not for pure entertainment reasons. These otaku are the most vulnerable to the idea of depression and suicide, since they are at a bridge of deciding their own life or death. Deaths consideration, with all the people calling out suicide like its the latest fad developed from cutting wrists and emo, it really is hard to tell whos seriously considering it, many just want sympathy with no questions for a bit of attention, some want favors to feel better and a fake friendship. But, those really considering death need a direction and not any sort of hand out. It may sound dramatic, it might sound like its a bit emotional with the reality being a boo hoo who cares notion, but people should care if they want the community to grow and make it where it isnt welcoming to shaming bullies, cosplay jocks, and whale spenders. It has to direct people in a way that they can find help, no shaming or sympathy, just a direction. The ball is then in their court and up for them to decide what is right for them. However, even in the world of Otaku there are expectations and cliques of acceptance that defeat the purpose of using it as a world of escape. Shaming in all of its forms for Otaku can be by appearance or fandom in its many types: Body Type Shaming: Skinny Shaming, Fat Shaming, Cosplay Shaming, Fandom Shaming: animanga series Shaming, animanga knowledge shaming, gunpla shaming, and the list goes on. With each unique problem comes a unique answer of what to do and a plan to fight the spreading negativity. However, never be surprised that others are just jealous of even the simplist of things that are had, maybe they never had a back pack and the person does, maybe they never wore a cosplay but always wanted to and see that the person has shown up in cosplay, maybe there are unhealthy people who look average but are unhealthy on the inside who perceive others as bad for being healthy... Most of the time bullying has no logical reason of why it motivates the other person, since it is a chance to feel relaxed by abusing others and preying as the hunter to cause the negative feelings. Bad people in general thrive on the worse condition other people are in, yes, that means those who are depressed and suicidal are the perfect prey for them as negative generating hunters who hunt those who already feel bad or are susceptible to psychological negative attacks. Many people are depressed are straight cut and follow rules, are nice and kind, are brought up nicely, but have deep feelings of ill confidence and depression. This is from life in even a place to escape, shutting the person and cutting them down to nothing, too many times from so many people with so many judgemental opinions with so many fingers pointing in disgust of what they have chosen to be or like. The feeling of worthlessness becomes predominant in day to day thought for otaku who are shut out this way, especially in animanga clubs of otapolitics. Sadness is a feeling we often dont talk about. People are suppose to be strong, people are suppose to live up to expectations of age plus role plus gender, people are suppose to be unique with passion and have finances to show for that as well. But the truth is everyone has an invisible battle that no one else can see, so it makes it hard. All the fighting and thinking with what is the meaning to life in definition and what should the person be doing, or if the person should be trying at all. Motivation will not strike until all the sadness goes away. When people do lose to sadness it is common to jump from buildings, over the counter drug overdoses, or self suffocation. In Japan, its common to go to a tree and hang till death, jump in front of a train and be smashed into small bits, or to jump in front of a large truck. In animanga it is typical for people who are depressed to turn to family members who are overly busy with work, taking clubs or bars as a place to recover, and falling into a circle of depression that circulates from the source. Some shows turn to the super natural and have ways to deal with depression, such as blaming the mystical Yokai spirits for problems, however this doesn’t bold well for adults who are depressed. In several animanga the characters turn to the internet for their support and even some live action shows, such as: Serial Experiments Lain and Train Man. If the reader wants to have the feeling of depression, let sadness behold you through a few suggested titles to check out of: Grave of the Fire Flies, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Anohana: The Flower We Saw that Day, and Clannad. Aokigahara, known as suicide forest in Honshu Prefecture is famous for angry ghosts and the dead from those who have taken their lives there. So many people commit suicide in the forest that the main trail has signs and messages towards those interested in suicide to think of their families and to rethink life, it is even referred to in Mazinger Z. Its suggested for people to talk about their problems rather than keep them in, counselors go throughout the forest to make sure people have a chance to speak before deciding to leave their soul at the forest, security cameras are set to see if people are even attempting suicide at an attempt to stop them. With these sort of measures its important when being depressed to take similar actions of talking to people online or offline, taking a good look at the real situation, thinking about all the people effected of family and children in a unselfish way. When the person finally finds a way out from the constants of depression... it starts with surrounding oneself with life, maybe even at a mall where the person is alone, yet with life all around. Staying away from mind altering drinks and drugs can keep thinking in a straight line with problem solving the reasons of feeling worse and negative thoughts. The importance of problem solving is to understand the depression to make it solvable, since many think it is a feeling that will simply pass, well it doesn’t. Overcoming the problems and catalysts to the pain are the only way suicidal feelings will pass. Getting over problems means a second chance with searching for a meaning of life. The exposure of more Animangas, especially happier slice of life ones may show the beauty of living. It takes the idea that the mind says from self concluding self worth is less than nothing and shows there is worth in dedication to self and worth that is made and not given. Worth is a chase of evolution of self expectation, a feeling that is based on self satisfaction of expectation, and fine tuning the idea of where and what a person of age and situation is to be by self definition and no one elses. Only these sorts of realization will bring the natural order of life in moving on and into the unknown, and becoming ever more stronger for it.
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