Believe it!

You can either whine, complain and cry about the obstacles you face in life or dream and take charge to be in such a position where you can completely change the circumstances. Believing in yourself that you can do what you want in life when nobody around you are even aware of who you are, what you are capable of. Not even yourself. Even though if you are hated by everyone, even though everyone disrespects you, having a positive attitude and approach towards what you want to do about it is the whole thing that matters. Lately, I finished binge watching this anime series, "Naruto" and if I say that it was incredible, that's absolutely nothing that would describe it. As far as I understood there are so many ingenious takeaways from the series. Coming to the story, Naruto is a child in whom a demon fox's spirit is sealed for the sake of the protection of his village. Without mother and father, he spends his childhood experiencing the wrath of hatred from everyone in his village. With the given circumstances, he could've chosen to become just powerful enough to take a revenge on everyone who disrespected him and treated him like a flu, but his approach carries such a belongingness that he wants to become the leader of the village to ensure that everyone respects him. How can someone be not inspired by this piece of anime even if it's not real? While setting out for a cause bigger than himself or his dream of acknowledgement, he tames that demon fox spirit inside him and just grows more and more powerful. I kind of get my lines of life from here. We all have that dark side inside us which we usually either disregard or hate ourselves for. If not both, we let that dark side drive us without even acknowledging the harm it is doing to us. To embrace that dark side, to be able to embrace it in such a way that we can transform the darkness in our heart into a light with unimaginable brightness! Looks to me like the real victory one can achieve. Not just the hero of the story but every character has got wealth in the way they live their lives in the show. One of the most important part of the philosophy of this anime is to be able to understand each others' pain and lend them the hope and closure of understanding is something that can move lives in ways we might never imagine. Naruto faces many critical situations all along the story but not once did he choose hatred or anger over love and forgiveness. A very important aspect in everyone's life is not letting their feelings distort into emotions that reel negativity. It is quite a skill, maturity and practice to save one's heart from assuming these negative emotions towards anyone. "The experiences of a person lead them to the behaviour they end up with." But to not let our experiences make our heart go cold, takes tremendous courage and only one who doesn't take the easy way out but chooses to understand the pain in someone's heart that is causing them to project it in their behaviour which is violent or bad can ever succeed in transforming the violence in someone's head into peace in their heart. I might never have imagined that just an anime can make me see my own depth as well as ground me into what I belive again when I was feeling lost and off wondering if I was ever right. What a show, dattebayo!

From the shadows or the light, 

Just a belief can bring the sight.

Stand tall and hold that smile,

Believing yourself is your might.

None around but have the gut,

You should acknowledge yourself first.