the fear of love
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- Опубліковано 19 кві 2023
- Love. One of the things in this world most worthy of fear. Capable of building worlds up and destroying them in the same exact breath. Why some live, and why others decide to stop. Love can be everything, and can make us nothing.
Many stories discuss this topic, and this video essay is going to analyze how it’s presented across a few anime. Violet Evergarden and its titular Violet lays the framework by expressing how love can be so different for everyone; the incomprehensibility of love based on perspective. Steins;Gate shows Okabe Rintaro, or Hououin Kyouma, and his own fear of love because of how it lacks any comprehensive logic, the mask he wears to make love make sense, like with Kurisu Makise or Mayuri Shiina. A Silent Voice integrates the concept with self worth through Shoya and Shoko’s stories, a pair who both give too much, and take too little, based on factors they can’t control, complicated love even more. And, of course, Trigun, the story of Vash the Stampede, one living among humans with nothing but love for them, and who can only be constantly hurt by that strong feeling in every single way, like with Meryl. With these anime (Violet Evergarden, Steins;Gate, A Silent Voice, and Trigun) and a personal story, this video essay will analyze and discuss the themes of these series and what we can learn from them.
the fear of being loved | an anime analysis video essay
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In the trigun remake, Vash said "No matter how heavy a cross you carry, you still deserve to eat,you still deserve to laugh" i love this quote.
"Love is terrifying because it means loving ourselves enough to be loved."
Wow. "I can't tell if you like me" , "That's the point you idiot" is some of the hardest hitting yet accurate descriptions I've ever heard a stranger say.
"It's not that calling love a transaction is bad even if it feels reductive. It's like trying to set a price when everyone has their own currency and there's no exchange rate."
"Love is terrifying because it means, loving ourselves enough to be loved"
“Love is so terrifying because we need to love ourselves enough to be loved.” What a quote
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For me the most terrifying part is being vulnerable, trusting someone who I have no reason to trust even if I know that most people wouldn't betray you if you told them your insecurities, every time I've done that I have made a friend, or they didn't care, but every time it is terryfing, and I feel like im ripping myself open for them, and trusting them to not take my heart and blow it up.
Violet Evergarden was the first anime to genuinely make me tear up.
Loving someone is painful, but being loved is scary
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i havent seen enough people talk about the fear of being loved - the pain of not feeling worthy of it, not understanding why someone stays by your side when all you see is a nobody in yourself. i hate this because i know so many people wish they had people love them. but i have never felt worthy of it, and still dont. people love me and stick by my side, when im just thinking about the absolute destruction of my own being. when i just wish i could destroy myself.
Holy crap, this video made me cry. From reminding me of past relationships and even friendships that crumbled after broken promises to finally learning to love myself after giving one too many pieces of myself away, I understand that yes, love is scary. It’s painful, especially the inevitable loss that comes with it, but I wouldn’t want it any other way. We learn from our mistakes, from the hurt we didn’t intentionally mean to give. We do the best we can and sometimes, for people it’s enough. The saying “you must love yourself before you love others” was told to me often, and in a way, it rings true, but not in a way that means you must refrain from loving others until you see yourself in that same devotion and admiration. I see it in a way that means you can give the world and everyone in it all of your love and time and until you realize that you doing that means something, that it’ll always mean something to someone out there, it’ll make you feel empty. Humans were born to hurt, but more importantly, to love, but we often forget that we are deserving of that love. I hope anyone reading this understands that nobody is born into this world to be alone. Someone loves you, and if nobody does right now, someone will in time.
I can say this love is the greatest feeling you could ever know but at the same time the longer that feeling lasts the more it will create a pain that can't be dulled once once it's been torn out of you
I always appreciate the vulnerability and thought you put into your videos, got me tearing up my last hour at work lol. I'm a person with an avoidant attachment style, who has yet to love or be loved. So I think you're quite brave.
Your videos are so well put together. I hope your channel grows and blows up so more people can see your creative work, keep it up.
it doesn't matter how hard or scary love is, we shouldn't stop trying at it, it's the most valuable thing one can give to others, but it's also the hardest thing one can create
having broke up with my ex after 3 long years i still remember holding her and not knowing what she had done wrong but knew that i was falling out of love. having a shaky family life i would use her as a crux to support my dwindling sense of self. it left me longing not for her but what she represented, a warm hand gliding through my hair, a tight grasp her two arms binded
My favorite thing about your videos is that they are so personal (as in you throw Your emotions, Your experiences, etc. into them). It's always so beautiful and heartfelt~ Thank you for always crafting such personal videos, and I hope to anything and everything good in the vastness of the universe and beyond that you never lose your passion~💜