happy to be alive.~

just happened to surf upon this episode of 1 litre of tears.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kqi_jb2mXY

one of my favourites coz it made me cried the most. A sypnopsis of the show for those who hasn't watched it before and oh, it's based on a true story.

15 year old Ikeuchi Aya lives humbly as an ordinary girl with her family owning a small tofu shop. However, she finds herself falling easily and at times, she would just freeze on the spot even though she knows she got to for e.g. dodge a ball that's coming her direction. She's suffering from an incurable disease known as Spinocerebellar Degeneration, a cruel disease of the degeneration of the neurons in the brain, which when full blown, will cause her to lose her ability to talk, walk, write and eat. It's doubly cruel as this disease does not affect her mentally, meaning she lives her days knowing fully what's going to become of her. She passed away at the age of 25, making a great impact on the numerous lives of people who had similar illnesses, with all the diaries she wrote about how she battled with this horrible illness.

this episode is about aya, upon knowing that it's impossible for her to study in a mainstream school anymore, making the most difficult decision to go into a special school instead, away from all her friends and dream school.

loved the part where her class dashed out to the school gate to see Aya off singing this song 3 gatsu 9ka - meaning 3月9日, a song which they performed before where Aya was their conductor for that performance. sad....sad...sad.

please check out this guy called Asou Haruto.. he's so cool and chose to be with aya although he knows aya is down with this illness. is there such a person in real life not...sigh.

the link might take some time to download, can pause first, allow it to finish loadind before playing to avoid disruptions.

highly recommend everyone to watch it. reminds us how lucky we are to be alive and that we ought to live life to the fullest.

enjoy!