Testimonial: Naruto Manga in my Tear-Jerker List

My Tear-Jerker List is growing. I thought I wouldn't cry for any story, but now. I have cried by three stories (Maybe four, but I am not sure)

The strange or interesting thing is that I have seen these stories two or three times before they pull tears from me. Maybe I was not prepared the first time, or something has happened in my life before those stories wet my eyes.

1) Bruce Almighty: after Bruce is fired from his job, seeing him blaming God, made me to empathize so much with the character, that it generated several tears from me.

2) Lord Of Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring: When Frodo tried to leave Sam, Sam tried to swim in order to reach him, but he does not know how to swim!! Then, Frodo helps Sam and then ask him: Why did you do that? after the answer of Sam, I dropped some tears.

3) Naruto Manga: All the events related with the life and death of Jiraiya, plus the messy life of both Naruto and Nagato, then reviewing all the chapters from Kakashi seeking Naruto to make him know about the death of Jiraiya, making emphasis in Tsunade's Tears, Iruka's consolation and Shikamaru's reanimation (while remembering the death of Asuma). With this, I cried a river. (Note: firstly, I wanted to review the conversation between Tobi and Pain, before the attack to Konoha, which I have not done yet). The Starter: What Fukusaku said about the Child Of Prophecy, after naruto leaves. (I thought it was Tsunade who said it)

4) One Piece Anime: (All entries including and after this one are new) In Baratie saga, when I learned why Red Leg Zeff and Cooker Sanji have that kind of attitude towards life... wow! When I think about how One Piece story develops, I always recall "The Wizard of Oz"...

5) Gran Torino: all events (totally all events) that happened in Tao life, from where he was washing dishes, until he got locked in Walt's basement. I think I should mention movies like Million Dollar Baby and Gladiator. Very deep movies that really moved me, but they didn't pull tears from me, although they almost achieved it.

6) Pursuit of Happyness: my first tear rolled when Chris and Christopher were playing basketball... wow, everything was suffering until the very least five minutes. To think that we will live something like Chris Gardner lived... the ending was somewhat happy and common cliché, but "knock knock" jokes cleaned it! This phrase from Monster anime's ending song fits well: "...we could lose it all, but we'll go down fighting..."

7) Never Ending Story: your long-time friend (e.g. Artax), who sunk in the Swamps of Sadness, someone as reliable to you as your own pet, who don't believe in what you believe and focus "blindly" on his sadness to the extreme of letting himself die.

8) Yip Man 2: after you see "Yip Man 1" completely, focus on all difficulties that Yip Man faced, and still, to utter that kind of words after his last battle against "Twister"... I hope for that day too! This movie was difficult for me to see. First, I got a virus in my PC. Second, those subtitles were a mess! :-/

9) Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Chapter 11: 'I trust Simon because he gave us Luck that time. When I feel weak or without confidence, I recall that Simon that got us out of there. "I will never make fun of him", I said to myself.' One tear, maybe two, but that was enough 'movement' for me. Also, the saga of Commander Rossiu was great!

10) Huo Yuan Jia / Fearless: this one happened while reading the english subtitles, but I made a big effort of not crying because there were many people near me :'-( I was reading them because I wanted to remember all what he learned when he was with the blind girl.

11) Up: the first 12 minutes of this movie reminded me all those childhood dreams that I have not achieved and all the struggle I have had, before something terrible happens to me. It also touched personal memories that ignited me to start this blog a long time ago.

12) Donkey Kong Returns: 20100718T091746. I was in DR-Metro when I was reminding the new Donkey Kong game trailer. It brought me memories of some favourite songs from old games, like Megaman 2, Final Fantasy VI, Donkey Kong Country 2, and Chrono Trigger.

13) El Reino Del Celo: sorry for this link, in spanish, but it talks by itself.

14) A sequence of songs: (1st) Soda Stereo - Entre Canivales; (2nd) MCD - Nadie; (3rd) La Ley - El Duelo; Date of tear-jerker: 2011-01-21 07:56 AM (GMT -4). The fourth song I was planning was: La Ley - Mentira.

15) One Piece: Death of Going Merry, 'nuff said.

16) Gunsgrave: Chapter 11, Time 7:11, Brandon leaves flowers in the tomb of Ritchie's mother. I felt the urge to cry, but the scene was spoiled by the crazy guy. To feel the presence of the Big Daddy...

17) One Piece - We Fight Together: the opening of post Marine Ford arc, that is a kind of summary of the whole story until that moment and how the crew met.

18) The Richest man in Babylon: the description of the war, and specially, the moment when enemies went away from Babylon, and the war cry after that.

19) Listened to Sensation White 2006 intro, at Dic 6, 2012

20) Coach Carter: reminds me of that trill that you feel when your message is well received. When a seed lands on fertile soil.

21) Ink: we all have a belief about another universe running in parallel with ours. We always want to confirm if it really exists, or not. What if the price of confirming this world's existence is a sad experience?

22) League of Legends: and, like if it was by an act of magic, a chaotic group goes unexpectedly in great sync. (January 4th, 2014)

23) The Boys Are Back: so much love to show, and it's clear he doesn't know how to do it correctly, but the hope is that those recipients of love are willing to accept whatever he can offer, and know how hard he tries.

24) Stromae - Papaoutai: it was the meaning behind the meaning of the meaning of this video…

25) La Sonora Carruseles - Micaela Boogaloo: I don't understand that moment, en-route to my job. The Xylophone Solo started the emotion that day.

26) (This space is reserved for a tear-jerker I'm putting my effort to recall)

27) Eres Mi Religión, Muelle de San Blas, El Duelo: December 25, 2015... a tiny peek into the past...

The one from Naruto (#3) motivated me to make these writings about these Tear-Jerker stories.

Alan Moore, co-creator of "Watchmen", said that Comic Books can do things that cinema and literature could not. A manga entered in my Tear-Jerker list. I wanted an example of what Moore said, and manga is the closest thing to a comic book, so...

The day I started this post was the last day in my country, Dominican Republic, of a book festival called "La Feria Del Libro". Maybe I could find a book about ... :D (I don't know why, but after some tears I feel a little relieved)

Walt Disney, Video-Games and Anime have always been there. Then, the Twister-Ending stories, then Hayao Miyazaki. Now, the Tear-Jerkers. It seems that I won't be so tired when I become an old man! ;-)

The straight line is not the only best way

There are many paths to reach a point. Although the optimus path is the straight line, or straight-like lines, there are also many other paths: long, curly and puzzled paths.

Normally, the easiest and most possible/feasible of all paths are any of those long, curly and puzzled ones, because there is always something, how to say it, something that proves the straight path is not best one, after employing common sense.

There will be always a big obstacle in the straight path. If that big obstacle is not present, then either the point to which you could arrive does not worth too much, or you have passed the obstacle without noticing it. "Measure your success with the sacrifices you did to achieve it."

Conformism

There are people who conform with so little things.
There are people who conform with two or three things.
But there are people who conform with so many things!!

One can conform with a laptop, but another needs a Ferrari to be conform! I think that, in part, is the challenge that represents that something for oneself that determines the level of conformism that the thing in cuestion provides. Another part could be the desire for that thing, because many people want to have, even if they don't use it at all.

What do you thing about conformism?

Women were created for recieving, anyway

Sorry for thinking women are witches sometimes. It happens because my silliness of forgetting that women were created for recieving. For example: they recieve life.

"There are no bad woman, but not enough money for them."

Think about it. It is difficult to date a woman two or three times without spending something. It is also easier to find a woman if you spend too much. They tend to be near of men who spend much money and they like the "details" too much.

You could be ugly, but it does not matter if you have money. You could feel love for her, but if you don't spend money, she even say something about it.

Also, you must be psychic with her. You must guess what they think and want, and the worse part: they do not like to help you with that guess. Why they are so?

To inspire yourself

Is not to do mental analysis about your life and take them as a game or momentary thought; instead, take them as something capable to inspire and focus yourself on a better goal.

It is very common for us to change goals, objectives and points of view. It is because we try to get better when time passes. But being better also means you have to change some of the things you are actually doing, or the way you think about events that occur in your life.

Take your reflections as auto-inspiration! But don't forget to check the goodness and correctness of them.

God Embarrass

God Embarrass. To live with the elbow of someone on your own ribs. Is difficult to find people who take good care about your things, and more difficult is to find people who fix them. Everybody wants to take advantage of you.

I know that the way of doing of the people is not God's fault, but because of his Design: to keep people living in the mud and not eternally, because they die. Some people have changed the world because they were related to influential ($) people in the world, because money is needed to spread the message of change all over the world. So, the work for us should be to get those relations, able to spread our message, but... in exchange, "They want profit!!"

Filth, mud and mire all over the world. How can this design be changed? Greed, Envy and Wish of Power will always exists here.

Forget About God

The best one can do as a human being on earth is to forget the existence of God. Either put order or be part of the disorder.

It is frustrating when one sees all these wars, robbery, lies, double morals, politics, crippled technology because of the monetary system, diseases, broken wishes, aging, etc.

They say "only God can save us", but it is YOU who have to make the choice. God had never appeared recently in front of anybody. Well, some books say He had appeared, but it approximately two thousand years ago.

Ok. I agree that the Universe was not created by itself, but I don't understand completely why it was done this way. I was taught the mantra "God, please help me!", but you must keep your eyes open to catch the opportunities that arise. "God" won't catch them for you.

Because of this mantra, I agree with a saying from a Saint called Agustin. That saying looks something like: "Pray like everything in the universe depends on God. Work like everything depends on YOU".

Maybe that mantra elevates us to a higher state of our mind, as yogis do....

Monkey Hero

Maybe the experiment of the five monkeys and the bananas was for finding the hero.

There is a is story of an experiment with five monkeys. They were kept in a cage, and, in the top of a jail, there is a bunch of bananas. When a monkey tried to reach a bananas, the scientists throwed at them loads of cold water.

After some time, when a monkey tried to grab a banana, the other monkeys started to hit him.

The scientists then replaced one of the monkeys. Then, this monkey tried to grab a banana, and the other monkeys started to hit him.

Then, the scientists replaced another one of the monkeys, and it tried to reach a banana, but the other monkeys started to hit him again... "even the first replaced monkey hitted the second replaced one".

Then, with this pattern, the scientists replaced all of the five veteran monkeys, leaving only 5 new monkeys. These new five monkeys had never received a load of cold water, nevertheless, they didn't try to reach one banana of the bunch in top of the cage.

Why were they so? Maybe their answer could be "Here, things are that way."

Tetris for Ideas?

Possibly Tetris was created by his inventor in order to develop a method for organizing his ideas.

I think is possible that some games increase some of our psyque abilities unconciously. Scribble, Puzzles, Real Time Strategy, Snipper Games, Car Games... they can help in dominating some aspects of ourselves, or they were created for helping to get that control.

I am thinking about creating a very minimalist game that possesses one or two essential characteristics of Real Time Strategy genre. Some games closer to my idea are Lionga Galaxy and NanoWar, the latter being easier and has fifteen levels. Feel free to find it in internet :P

Productivity

This is a list of things I think will help me increase my productivity. Maybe this list needs some polishment.


Focus: not allowing any distractions from what I am doing.
Debugging: trying to reduce the time I spend on debugging and being more sure about my lines.
Objectives: not filling my mind with unneccesary features that are not needed.
Music: for relaxing and/or motivating me. Putting me into movement/action.
Seat: for feeling comfortable while working.
Review: for finding mistakes and redefining objectives.
Appeal to work: you should feel attracted to work. Try to optimize the way you feed your appetite for working.

Remember, even if you are on a tedious job, to try to calm. Improve your calmness in every moment of your job.

Three months is an acceptable deadline for many small projects.