How anime healed my broken heart

  Tomoya Okazaki - Clannad

It was weeks after my graduation when she told me that she was still not ready for a serious relationship with me (although we were already more than a year together, and that was her stupid excuse.) , and ended up with a new boyfriend in just a month (WTF!) . I was already at loss, depressed, and felt like I was already dead. I burned every memento that reminded me of her, deleted every data that's related to her, bought alcohol and drink alone in my room, and sometimes go with my friends in the city and have some fun together with a bottle or two just to make myself happy. It wasn't enough.

I got bored eventually...bored of being sad and pathetic on that situation. I wanted to become happy again. It came to me that there was something I want to watch. A story about a poor guy who became a butler, and serves a young and rich lady in a giant mansion. It was hilarious!

                                       Hayate No Gotoku, also known as Hayate The Combat Butler



This was when my addiction to anime started to kick in. After watching it, I started watching more ,and more. I've become happier in every show that I watch. I started collecting anime merchandise as well. I am no longer the guy who was crying for a girl who left me just like that.

This is just 1/3 of the list of what I had watched, and it keeps longer and longer until now.

My addiction to anime developed into something better. Some of the shows that I have watched reflects Japanese culture. From their way of saying 'Ohayo' , up to their cultural festivals, I have fallen in love once again, not with another girl... but with Japan. I realized that I want to set my life goal there. I want to become an English teacher there for at least a year, or just a simple tourist for a few days someday.

Nagisa: Do you like this school? I like this school very, very much. But everything keeps changing. All the fun and happy things are changing. But even so, are you still able to like this place?

Tomoya: Isn't it fine as long as you find it? Isn't it fine as long as you find the next fun and happy moments again?

Furukawa Nagisa and Okazaki Tomoya (Clannad)

Okay, this post is not exactly about how anime can help you deal with heartbreaks. If there's a lesson you could learn from this blog post, it's that there is no shortcut for moving on, not even death can help you on that. You don't want to be a wailing ghost that's still suffering from a heartbreak, right? You just need to let all that sadness out. Let time heal you while you cry, and indulge yourself to many distractions until you get over it. Soon, the next happy moment will come into your life.