ｅｓｓｅｎｃｅ of Attack on Titan #3

Why do we fight? Why do we work so hard to survive? Why do we shed so much blood? So many tears? So much despair?

Humanity’s answer to these questions lie within the realm of unknown and discovery. This is the brightest and most innocent of theme in Attack on Titan.

The outside world.

I’m the type that notices the stuff beyond a picture of a scene and this part of the show was quite humbling. It makes you see how lucky we really are. Human emotions are all the same but what triggers them…

What triggers them is unique from person to person.

“Fire water, land made of ice,"

"fields of sand!"

"the majority of this world is covered in a body of water called 'the ocean’ and its made up of saltwater!"

A closed minded person would look at this and laugh at how trivial those remarks are but an open-minded person would be astonished and amazed.

When described like how Armin described it, we really see how amazing and unique earth really is. So many different environments, landscapes and features and yet most people take it for granted.

I’m not telling you to go green or anything but this theme really symbolizes ALL the things that we take for granted everyday. You may have fail that test or you may have severed the ties with that one close friend but when you step back a little, you see that the sky is still blue and that the birds are still chirping and that (mostly) you see food and water at the dinner table.

It may be fiction, that walled statehas to constantly fight to survive against giant titans, but it is very real that there are numerous people in this world who DO have to fight everyday to survive. They work hard to even have an ounce of food and water at their dinner table. They shed blood and tears to make sure they can hear birds chirp again, maybe not tomorroweven , but they’ll be satisfied if they just hear the birds chirp a 100 days after or even a 1000 days.

They have to fight so hard so that they can have enough strength to keep the HOPE of seeing their sky lighted blue again, alive.

Like Armin and Eren and everyone else in AOT, for some people in this world, just seeing something as little as the ocean or even as little as a glowing smile will make the lights and glory of their lifetime.

Here is a condensed video of this theme created like the amazing Lucariochu that shows how chillingly humbling we should really be.

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