Bokura Ga Ita / We Were There
Anime, Manga
Genre: Drama, Romance, Shoujo, Slice of Life
One of the best anime ever created, Bokura Ga Ita (We Were There) is about the story of main characters, Yano Motoharu and Nanami Takahashi; their school life, how they met, their relationship, and their struggles in life. Its a must read and must watch series because we can learn some valuable lessons just by watching or reading it. An anime that has values embedded on it, values that you will think about for a certain time and finally realizing that it may happen in real life.
For me, this is the best manga / anime ever created. i can easily put myself in Yano's place, i have encountered the same problems before and when i had the chance to watch this anime, i easily understood what happened that time, and more of exactly how i think of things before. I'm not a great guy, not a bad guy either. I'm just in the middle, and i just like to keep it that way.
I have favorite quotations from that anime that i have pondered upon for a very long time and i still believe in it.
"if memories become dreams, then dreams also become illusions."
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"If I could change my past I will do it, if that will make you stop crying. I wish I could,
but I can’t"
- this is the time where we wish that we could change our pasts to correct a mistake that we did..
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"I think it’s a lot easier to place the blame on yourself than someone else , if you blame someone else, you’ll get stubborn and say you’ll never forgive them but when you blame yourself, you can shrug it off since there’s nothing you can do about it, and you wont get angry that way either"
- one of my personal motto in life. For me, its a way to keep yourself cool and avoid conflict with others.
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"someone once said that memories are just fractions of mind, when we remember, we fiddle these fractions around in what we think the right way. therefore, memories are creations. to remember means to dream.. and memories themselves are nothing more than mere illusions."
- you took a photo of your childhood in black and white show it to others and then you remember the color of your clothes, your toys and everything else way back that time. You are the only one who knew those things therefore creating the illusion to yourself and for others..
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For me, Memories are part of growing. We tend to create the best memories with those we consider as friends or family and at the same time we create the worst with them. Why? we're always there with them, through thick and thin, for better or for worse. We get to spend our time with them laughing and goofing around, forgetting all the problems we had and also, we spend some of the worst times with them, in some point we enter in an argument with our friends or family, we fight, we curse each other, but in the end, it will all be part of what we call memories and it will be an illusion that your friends or family will be the only ones who will live to remember those illusions.
I have made some things in the past not so long ago that i regretted the most. Pretty much like Yano Motoharu in the story, its normal that we regret something that we did in the past but its for us to leave it all behind and learn from it.
"You turn them into memories. The past holds as little reality as your dreams. Hurry and realize that already. and turn her into memories. Let go."
