I wonder how many people have crossed my path and what they are doing at this moment? Those who I had once talked to, worked with, hurt, loved. Those who helped me. And those who I had added to my phone book, email address book, Friendster and HI5 lists, ICQ and MSN contact.
Especially the latter group of people who had been inactive for awhile and not corresponded to me in any other way. I had met them in schools, at work, or during the friendlier days of the cyberworld. Most of them are at their end of the spectrum. And the little connections that had brought us together were long gone. I feel that something is to be done. But what? Delete the entries from my address books and lists, and traces of them from my life? Contact them and enjoy the awkward silence? Or simply ignore them? Have they become invalid entries in my life, waiting to be forgotten completely?
I watched this anime OVA last night entitled "Hotari: Tada Saiwai wo Koinegau". The main character is a humanoid robot named Suzu. He was built to look like Ryou, a boy who had passed away. Personality and memories of Ryou were progressively programmed into Suzu. His owner, Ryou's parents, wanted to feel their son's presence again, even when they knew Suzu was Ryou without the soul. Miracle struck when Suzu developed a personality of his own.
Suzu got to know a friend in the facilities. A human girl, Hotari, who was suffering from the condition of slowly losing her memories, perhaps it was Alzheimer's disease. Both were young but had the opposite fate. One with new memories accumulating everyday which he did not understand, the other losing her precious memories daily, memories such as how her mum looked like.
I consider myself much more lucky than Suzu and Hotari. I have a choice of who/what I want to forget/remember. What shall I do to those people who I've forgotten but constantly reminding me of their existence whenever I sign-on my MSN? I have no answer yet. But I do know you should download this OVA, and enjoy the tale of Suzu and Hotari.
Especially the latter group of people who had been inactive for awhile and not corresponded to me in any other way. I had met them in schools, at work, or during the friendlier days of the cyberworld. Most of them are at their end of the spectrum. And the little connections that had brought us together were long gone. I feel that something is to be done. But what? Delete the entries from my address books and lists, and traces of them from my life? Contact them and enjoy the awkward silence? Or simply ignore them? Have they become invalid entries in my life, waiting to be forgotten completely?
I watched this anime OVA last night entitled "Hotari: Tada Saiwai wo Koinegau". The main character is a humanoid robot named Suzu. He was built to look like Ryou, a boy who had passed away. Personality and memories of Ryou were progressively programmed into Suzu. His owner, Ryou's parents, wanted to feel their son's presence again, even when they knew Suzu was Ryou without the soul. Miracle struck when Suzu developed a personality of his own.
Suzu got to know a friend in the facilities. A human girl, Hotari, who was suffering from the condition of slowly losing her memories, perhaps it was Alzheimer's disease. Both were young but had the opposite fate. One with new memories accumulating everyday which he did not understand, the other losing her precious memories daily, memories such as how her mum looked like.
I consider myself much more lucky than Suzu and Hotari. I have a choice of who/what I want to forget/remember. What shall I do to those people who I've forgotten but constantly reminding me of their existence whenever I sign-on my MSN? I have no answer yet. But I do know you should download this OVA, and enjoy the tale of Suzu and Hotari.
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