Comment on Ichi Rittoru no Namida 一リットルの涙 by Meeu

i remembered watching this film with the lights out and i didn’t even notice the tears falling down until i ended one episode. “But I still sympathize…(contradicting, I know.)” —> it’s true. because as much as we have their feelings to think about, we also have ours as well. we feel that because we dread the loss of life, of the memories, and of the future. but i don’t think it’s insulting. sympathy (for me anyways), is just a manifestation of your value. . . that they want you to have lived longer and want to be with you in times ahead. it is as they say “that it is as hard for the friends/relatives the victims as the victims themselves, but perhaps, much more”, despite the fact that medically speaking, it is not advisable to show sympathy to an ailing patient who wants to accept the gravity/reality of his/her situation and what to do with his/her life from then on.