Wednesday, November 26, 2008

 

have been watching hayate no gotoku... thanks very much to jc =D

then i realised (or rather just formalised the thought) that it would be nice to be like hayate. he's good in many aspects. i shall not bother to list all the good things about him, and then the bad thing is probably like not much.

i wonder if we all imagine ourselves to be the good guy? i know i do. is it normal? maybe that helps to drive ourselves towards a set of proper behaviour, but then there is also an opposing view that this is the wrong motivations towards the correct behaviour, and that at the root of everything we would not acheive the ideal state. (smoke generated from my module on intro to chinese philosophy. not very dense smoke i guess.)

what's so great about being that guy? well, he's likable. he's popular with people. he's nice enough that you would think "hey if ppl think of me the way i think of this guy, that would be great!" and you dun really find faults with this sort of person because he's pretty much perfect. yet he's really only an anime character. is it practical to want to be like him? is it practical, for that matter, to want to be anything that you are not? or maybe what you find if others will awaken you to find that same thing buried deep within yourself?

i should stop this argument soon... but in any case, it's nice to have a model of someone you want to be like. or maybe someone you identify with (and hopefully can agree objectively that that is a positive kind of model) harima was one such case. well. maybe in that sense it helps to find humour even though you might be playing a tragic role. or even find hope. shu hui said, hope does not disappoint. i interpreted it in a very positive light, but it seems she had a different understanding. alas. i'm still dumbfounded up to now.

Zhengyu wrote at 6:52 PM.