#relatable experience

[ddmienz]

One of the reasons that makes me think of Obito as a very realistic character is the person he became after experiencing heartbreak.

And I think that the people who like to throw the word "simp" at him after he cracks at the death of Rin really underestimate the pain and despair of getting your heart broken, and how badly it changes you.

Have you ever experienced a heartbreak SO BAD that the trauma made you abandon the old ideals that you once believed in, such as your views on friendships, love, society, or whatever?

Some may recover and in fact, learn to see things in a more positive way after an experience like that, where they can take the pain as a lesson to be learned, and move forward. But some end up shutting out, become meaner, and just keep a really hard wall around them so that they don't feel the same pain again. Some have their mental health so f*cked by the experience that they end up needing to get help.

Heartbreak and despair does that. It's a f*cking painful, and brutal experience.

In Obito's case, sure, for the sake of the plot and fictional purposes, he becomes insane and psychotic, and sadistic and heartless, but realistically, he was drowning in so much despair that he couldn't see the good in the world any further. He already hated the rules and ways of the shinobi world, but he held ideals and values that made him go on, before Rin died by the hands of Kakashi.

And Rin was someone incredibly important to him - in every way, not just romantically. His words "she was my only light" isn't something cheesy, it's because she was someone who made him feel like he had a purpose in a cruel world - his skills were shit, he was below average, and if Rin wasn't around, he'd only be put down by everyone. She was the only one motivating him to continue reaching for a goal that everyone thought he could never reach.

Now, imagine losing someone like that. The heartbreak and pain of that will change the way you see things, too. No longer will you believe in the good of this world. No longer will you want to create connections with anyone. No longer will you believe that there is hope, all that you can think of is how everything is just absolutely temporary and meaningless, and how nothing ever feels true.

You might say Kakashi went through so much shit as well, but the way it changed him is different from the way it changed Obito. The experience of heartbreak and pain may create a good change, or a bad change. In Obito's case, it became a bad change.

[weetbixcuits]

Household where the safety and nonviolence of any given situation is directly proportional 2 how high the residents are

[malachimulligan]

[badassnephilim]

The bi panic in Heartstopper has me screaming crying squealing etc.

[aliceviceroy]

Rita’s got a controlling mom

[paintingpoems]

“This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams was born in New Jersey, where he became a huge influence in the Imagist and Modernist movements. He focused his writings on that of everyday people and situations. 

I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox

and which you were probably saving for breakfast

Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold

This poem is much different than many we have previously studied in AP Literature thus far. Instead of being full of extended metaphors and alternative meanings, at its surface, it appears to be a poem that simply wants to say something, alluding to the title “This is Just to Say.” It is written with colloquial, direct diction that creates a casual tone within the writing. The poem feels more like a note written on a napkin or post-it to a family member, rather than an in-depth analysis of a situation.

The poem’s use of incorporating simple language into an apology to someone else for eating the plum they may have been saving for breakfast conveys the meaning to the person that the poem is intended for. The poem is not asking the readers to decode any metaphors or allusions within the context-rather, it is providing the readers with the answers already. The poem is simply there just to say “sorry.” This is made clear through the last stanza of the poem, where the author states, “Forgive me, they were delicious, so sweet, and so cold.” The structure of the poem doesn’t appear to be something the author thought about for hours before constructing. It’s a poem that could have been written much like we write in prose: by writing down what we feel, without worrying about the structure or rhyme. The author regretted eating the plums, so he wrote down his feelings in this poem.