A Example of how media affects reality. How one anime helped me with my traumatic loss

[u/TorchyDaisy321]

You ever finished a piece of media that reflects your past and you felt like it helped you with your loss of family member that you’ve been mourning?

Well a 12 episode drama series named Tsuma Shougakusei Ni Naru

Sypnopsis

It’s about a middle aged man named Keisuke niijima who is a office saleswoker who wants to become a boss sales worker who in his meeting about the future meets a nice woman named takae who helps him with his future. They often go on dates and eat out a lot. He loves her delicious cooking meal and bentos. They eventually get married and had a child named Mai. There they lived a happily ever after and often go on trips and spend time as a family But that happy life ended when his wife died in a traffic car accident. This triggered Keisuke and Mai and devestated them both and mourning over her so hard that since 10 years later they haven’t moved on from her and clinging on to the past and have been eating nothing else but convience store food but one day a elementary school student at the age of 10 regains her memories from her past life and steps in to the gloomy niijima household. She then shocked the family claiming to be keisukes wife reincarinated The daughter and father refused to believe her at first but the little girl tells details about her family past then when she scolded them for eating junk meals since she passed away and the way she scolded them was exactly in a tone like the mother. That’s finally when they believed it was her even though in the soul body of a child. The only reason she intervined is because she saw that they haven’t moved on from her. So she helps them grieve

Story time how the series helped me cope with it

On June 17th it was the day my mother died of cancer She was fighting cancer and chiemo from 2017 to 2021 for 5 years and until then her health was improving a lot and her friends would support her a lot. Every Christmas breakfast she would make hash brown casserole. It was very tasty. I have fond emotional memories of it. But on the begenning of 2021 my mom was caught with bad bacteria and a disease where she would not stop vomitting due to her stomach virus and she would be hostpitaized a lot. Of course her friends would help her and give us food and we were very eager to eat their meals for dinner whenever their friends visit at our house. It was definitely something that I wished my mom got better and her last vacation she went with us was on the beach but she stayed at the hotel due to the stomach virus. My grandmother visited my house to help support my mother too. She stayed for a long time even at the time the worst thing happened on June 17th when My mother passed away. I was very horrifically devestated that i never said any final words to her I didn't wanted to lose her too early. But, unfortunately, it happened. 😢 Her words before her passing is that she wanted us to move on from her while still grieving. I moved to Texas one year later and I have initially moved on but every year on June 17th I felt like I was regressing back to my old ways. It felt like I lost everything I had when I lived with my mother.

Conclusion It’s a absolute emotionally driven great story to dealing with grief and loss and I think it’s a must watch even for people who don’t like anime nowdays.