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the real world - by Ava - bookbear express

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Without spoiling, Mahito is given a chance to rule a fantasy world, but he chooses the pain of the real one. That's the lesson of adulthood, the awareness that we can't live in lands of made-up characters and fantasy versions of those we've lost. We are strong enough to make it in the real one. After gifting us with so many visions, Hayao Miyazaki isn't telling us to live in those animated worlds- he's telling us to live in our own. And we can still visit his whenever we need a reminder of how to live. The real world. In the real world I got a roomba and it took me three weeks to unbox it. In the real world I’m scared that I’ll fuck everything up. In the real world I don’t like beginnings because I’m too anxious—I like the moment when the rollercoaster starts to descend, when the bottom falls out. In the real world he told me that he would love me forever but still stopped talking to me when I let him down. In the real world I miss J all the time. In the real world I always have to pee

From a review of The Boy and the Heron, which I saw with C and N last week: Without spoiling, Mahito is given a chance to rule a fantasy world, but he chooses the pain of the real one. That's the lesson of adulthood, the awareness that we can't live in lands of made-up characters and fantasy versions of those we've lost. We are strong enough to make it in the real one. After gifting us with so many visions, Hayao Miyazaki isn't telling us to live in those animated worlds- he's telling us to live in our own. And we can still visit his whenever we need a reminder of how to live. The real…

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