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Serious discussion here. What exactly does Pokemon mean to you? Does the franchise hold any significant meaning for you?
Pic related. I was alive when the original anime show started. Hardly a week after my 4th birthday, I fell into a coma. Turns out I had type-1 Diabetes and my blood sugar was hyperglycemic. For three days I was rendered a vegetable, living off IV treatments while my body stabilized towards tolerable glucose levels.
When I woke up, I had absolutely no idea what happened or why I was hooked up to all these machines. My parents were literally crying tears of joy to see me awake, and my older brothers weren't being asses, so clearly something was up. After all the hoopla, dad decided to turn on the television. It was afternoon, and Kids WB (I'm old, but not THAT old) was on. Then that iconic opening intro song came on, with mewtwo gliding through the stars. Things didn't seem really good that day, but for the next 30 minutes, I could recall a sense of peace that wasn't there before.
I'm 26 now. My health isn't the best. Neuropathy seems to be occurring more frequently. Depression has been the only consistent thing in my life. I can't hold a job for more than 8-10 months, and girlfriends last for even less time than that. It's a struggle to gain weight without consuming stuff that's bad for my A1C. I want to believe there's a future, but my current situation makes it hard to believe I'll make it to see 30. That's just the life I was given, and I've come to accept it won't be pretty. Sometimes I close my eyes and relive that moment in the hospital bed...watching mewtwo fly towards outer space, it gives me peace of mind. It seems like things will get better after that. Maybe they will, maybe they won't. I just know that hoping to be the very best that no one ever was is one of the few things in life that relaxes the pain in my soul.
