One Litre of Tears

As the name suggests, anyone who watches this Japanese TV series, is more likely than not to cry at least a litre of tears. I belong to the minority as I have just cried half a litre when I watched this series.

The series is based on a true story set in Japan. It is about a girl called Aya Kitou, who was diagnosed with a certain brain disorder, which is too complex for me to name. Anyway, this brain disorder is not only incurable but also has a reputation to make its patients to die in the most cruel way ever discovered. As the starter, the patients will lost control of their limbs. They lose their ability to walk or move around. Their body parts become so uncontrollable that to write or type on keyboard is almost like to move a mountain. Then, move in the main course, the patients will slur in their speech and subsequently lose their ability to talk. Next, as the ultimatum, the patients will become close to paralyse until death take them in. During the whole process, they never lose their consciousness or their ability to think. Therefore it is like withnessing their own bodies whittling away.

Aya Kitou was so special that despite her disability she was determined to contribute in her own way to the society or to the people around her. For a disabled person, only the act of contributing can give them a sense of wellness and a feel of completeness. Because of this, Aya Kitou being not bothered by her disability, insisted and persisted to write her diary. She started off to write her diary as an avenue for her to express her suffering in the exact own words that she chose. Gradually she realized that her diary could become a source of motivation for other patients who suffered the similar fate. Knowing the potential of helping thousands if not millions of people through her diary, she unselfishly continued to write to the point she could no longer hold a pen.

Over the years, despite not translated to English, her diary has already sold more than a million of copies. And this TV series is inspired by her diary. For those who always complain about the nitty gritty of life, try to watch this. It may change your whole paradigm.

After finishing the series, I just have this to say, according to Mother Theresa, we should see God in everyone. Unfortunately because of our deluded mind, we don't. Therefore whenever God wants to talk and reach out to us, he chooses his representative on Earth. In this case, he has chosen Aya Kitou and through her, God spreads the message of love.