Welcome to NHK

When i was sick last week, i spent my time in my room watching this anime series called "Welcome to NHK". At first i was not really interesting in the title because in the title, i thought NHK was the Japanese TV company. But i decided to watch it anyway since it had the complete 24 episodes except for the 7th episode. I later found out it was an interesting series, although a bit slow in the introduction, but later on it will get really addictive. The story is about a college dropout, Satou who becomes a "hikikomori" after he dropped out of college, Hikikomori is a term given to people that only stay at home, dont work, dont go out, kindda like a couch potato. these people really have a psychological problem because they are afraid to go out and to socialize. All the bad stuff that happens to him and the reason he cannot improve is always blamed on the NHK (Nihon Hikikomori Kyokai) which pretty much means Japan Hikikomori Organization. He says this orrganization always creates conspiracies against him so that he cannot succeed. So, then he meets this girl that is trying hard to change him. So towards that end, Satou meet with many new experiences from online gaming to MLM which are really funny!!

Well the main thing i want to highlight is the moral of the story. Japan animators have a really good way to integrate moral values in their anime. Sometimes they give u a lesson that u didn't realize exist. As for this anime the girls gives tips on how Satou can overcome his fear of socializing, one of them are always to look down on the person that you are talking to. Means when you talk to a person, just think of him as inferior to you, that gives you more confidence to talk to people. If you look back into the real world, sometimes subconsciously, we tend to do that to people. Even if its hard to admit sometimes we do look down on people to make ourselves feel confident. Sometimes, knowing that you are the best, the strongest and the smartest, even when you are comparing to the worst people, gives you self confidence and makes you feel good. Of course, all of this happens subconsciously so you wont notice unless u really think about it. Well i don't think it's particularly a bad thing unless you go to far as to manifest this attitude in the form of egoistic words and cocky behavior.

But there is another, positive way to inter prate this behavior. Instead of looking down on people, be greatful of what you have. It might not be much, but it could be worse. You might not have what other people have but u also might have what other people don't and the "thing" that you have might just be what people are longing for. So, be greatful of what you have...

And at the end of the series, the girl turns out to be a problem child that went through a hard life when her dad died, her mom remarried to a violent husband and finally her mom took her own life. She was constantly beaten by her step father till she had a phobia of people. But now she is living with her uncle and aunte which are nice people, but she still had that phobia. She had gotten that far because she kindda looked down on Satou at the same time she loved him. But when Satou said she didn't love her, she decided to kill herself by jumping off a cliff. But what did Satou say to talk her out of it? well, he said all of the bad stuff that happened to her is not her fault, instead it was a conspiracy by the NHK to not let her to be happy. it was a dramatic scene ended in Satou wanted to jump himself..but when he jumped, it turned out that the government had installed a net at the cliff to stop people from jumping....memang potong stim..hahaha.. but it was really funny..

From here we can conclude that the NHK can also be described as [Fate]. Most of the time we can't always blame fate for not succeeding. If we keep on blaming fate, we will forever be where we are now or even worse. At the same time we are not in control of everything. Sometimes no matter how hard we try, it still doesn't turn out how we want it to. It's not completely your fault. Maybe its for the best. So its up to each individual how quickly he/she wants to accept fate as it is. Accept fate too quickly without even giving it a decent shot, well, thats really quite pathetic. whats more is despite that, they complain.....:-P

But i think the time it takes for one to give into fate mostly depends on how much one expects from life. How much he/she wants what he/she wants. There is a saying by a former Mafia member (who end up shot dead) : its important to keep a balance in life. Wanting too much from life, u might end up loosing everything u have and wanting to little from life, u might end up with nothing at all...

Tchuss.....