Animanga's Values of Life

Indonesia people usually watch anime when they were children, but Japanese watch anime regardless their age. Instead of being entertained or pleasure, people may get a lot of values in the anime itself.

Skeptic views said that watching anime is a wasting time activities. They think like that, because they don’t regard anime as a source of values teaching in the modern life. They think that it will poison children mind, and stray their own future. But, we ought to see a different perspective about the anime. Anime contains a lot of living values that we need to learn in our world.

Anime offer us values of living in the world. There are courage, friendship, empathy. The values of courage usually is given by shonen animes (watch animanga genre) . We may see courageous action of a character in order to beat the boss, they teach us how to be a greater person through a lot of training, experience, and will.  In our life, we may implant that action towards our life with having a strong willed mind to achieve our goals, having a courageous action to initiate our dreams, rising up from heavy nightmare and having endured our pain when we are learning something new. We may learns this value in One Piece, Naruto, etc

The value of friendship is offered in a dense proportion in the anime. We often see a character defend their friend, save his friends from danger, even sacrifice himself in order not to get their friends hurt. This teach us a lot about friendship that we should be there when our friend need our help, we should not be egoistic (makan temen), and so on so forth. Bleach, Ao No Exorcist have a dense friendship values

Empathy is the ability to understand another person's feelings, experience, etc (Oxford Advanced Dictionary). It is in the anime. Anime contains a touching scene, a different perspective that we may feel. It often tell us to understand others feeling, not to being cruel, and even give us an understanding how miserable a war is. This will give you a lot of an understanding about others feeling, different perspective, and conflict avoiding. We can sharpen our empathy in watching Gundam 00, Ao No Exorcist, One Piece.

So, in the end, anime has its own good values to teach us, and we’re supposed to see that anime will not only bring harm but also great life values we need.

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Gain Focus and Act Smarter when Sadness Come

Feelings of sadness can trigger stress or even depression. But sadness is also benefit because grief can make people think more focus and act smarter.

Professor at the University of New South Wales in Australia has found that sad people tend to be more dubious about the myths and rumors. They also tend to see people as individuals, not as stereotypes. They even provide a more convincing presentation."When happy, someone close their eyes from reality and just think about falling in love. The grief will make people think more deeply, concentrating on new information, look to the outside world and reassess old ideas," said Gordon Parker, professor of psychiatry at the University of New South Wales was quoted as saying by The Telegraph, Wednesday (19/10/2011).A U.S. study of 8,000 people found that a quarter of people treated for depression was not really sick. They have just experienced emotional difficulties such as loss, which they then solve itself naturally.Grief makes people calm, to reassess and make changes. If people are sad feel the need to take a sedative, in fact he does not need it. Because research shows that placebos have the same effect.A clinical trial comparing drug with placebo antidepressant. In this experiment, a placebo was found often able to cure depression.In 96 studies on antidepressants from 1980 to 2005, the placebo effect tenyata twice the effective anti-depressant and for six of 10 patients.The placebo effect works because one believes that the drug works and it works like the original antidepressants to treat depression that most of them can heal itself."Sadness helps us learn from our mistakes. I think, one of the functions of negative emotions is to make us focus on something else for a while," said psychiatrist Professor Jerome Wakefield of New York University.Sadness can also prevent people from making mistakes in the first place. The risk of sadness may deter people from becoming too sloppy or cavalier, especially in a relationship or with other matters that are considered valuable.

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