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I don't usually have insomnia, so when I mess up badly my sleeping schedule I just have to pull an all nighter, then next day go to sleep at the desired hour and job done. However, lately even if I don't sleep at all during the day when I go to sleep I wake up in about 2 hours and I'm unable to fall asleep again. I've been having these insomnia problems for about a month now. The advice you provided will prove useful to me as well, I hope.

I feel like I can totally relate with you mate. Usually we don't think of death as something real that will happen to us. We kinda "know it", we are "aware" of it, but I don't think most of the time we really understand what it means, that like any other day or moment in your life you've been waiting for, death will also eventually come. The hard part is accepting this "eventually" as real, and I myself can only sometimes achieve it for a brief moments in which my heart thightens in my chest, I get shivers and get lightheaded. It fades rather quickly though, as if your brain is applying some sort of self-defense mechanism to prevent you from having that enlightenment. Now, what I've come to realise though is that perhaps I don't really fear death itself, but rather the unavoidable pass of time, i.e, change. Everything we know and love will eventually disappear. Life itself will also disappear, and then nothing else will come for the rest of eternity. When I think about that I get some serious anxiety. I feel like I need to be doing something else with my life, right now, in this precise moment, but I don't know what, which further aggravates the issue. I cannot tell you how to overcome this, since I'm lost myself, but thinking about the alternative might be slightly comforting. Or rather, the lack of alternative. There is no point in between a finite and a non-finite life. Do you really believe thinking of an eternity to come would be less painful? An infinite time, in which you've already experienced everything you possibly could infinite times, and there's still an infinite amount of time remaining. Would you call that being alive? I could certainly tell that I'd rather be dead. For sure. I know, I know, that is not really reassuring, it's equivalent to tell someone "if there is not solution to your problem, then why bother worrying about it?". But that's just the way thing are, for you, for me and for everyone that has ever existed and for those who are yet to come. What alternative do we have but to accept it?

It is indeed. The rain in Spain falls mainly on my lady jane #wet. Thank you both for your welcome

I actually got my mom to sit and watch some anime with me some years ago. The thing to keep in mind is, in my opinion, if you're gonna introduce someone to anime, show them something that is "anime-like". Don't trick them, play fair. Sure, you might think it's a pretty good idea to show them something like "Monster", since it's closer to a good thriller western series, but I don't think it depicts properly the style we find in most anime works. In my case, I went boldly for Clannad, regardless of its rather dull first season, not to mention the good deal of anime gags and japanese culture related topics she couldn't possibly begin to grasp on her own. However, I tried to explain these issues to her the best I could, and then we got to After Story, and she loved it (she didn't shed a single damn tear though, and then next to her there was her 20yo son sobbing like a little bitch ). So yeah, to sum up, my advice if you want to introduce someone to anime, let it be relatives or friends, is to show them something you really like and shares the same style as most anime out there.

How's is going everyone? Hope you're all great. So, for the last year I've been really enjoying this VN medium unbeknown to most people in the west, even for otherwise anime fans. I've found in VN's something I've been long time missing in anime, and for me it's like a whole new world has open. That said, I'm still playing the basic recommendations you usually get. I'd swear my first VN was Narcissu, followed by the typical starter Katawa Shoujo, then I played through Saya no Uta, Yume miru kusuri, Little Busters!, Clannad, Steins;Gate, Ef, Eden* and right now I'm thoroughly enjoying myself playing Grisaia no Kajitsu (currently on Makina's route! I'm loving the little brat). I was looking for a place in which to have conversations on the topic, since I don't have friends that share this hobby and I was feeling a little lonely I must add that not only I can't read Japanese, but English is not my native language either, so I'm afraid I'll make some mistakes here and there. I hope you'll excuse me on that Anyway, enough banter is enough. Really looking forward to join you guys!