People look to the past to find themselves. They search their memories for hints of hope but often find despair. The mind wonders through a singly linked list of thoughts. One event building upon another until the present is reached. We ask, what if I had done it differently? We think, what if I had changed this? More often than not the truth is that we simply couldn’t do anything to change the happenstance of our past.

They say we must learn history or else, surely, we are doomed to repeat it. I’m sure most of us can relate to that mantra. How often I have wondered the truth of that mantra. How much control is there? How much leverage do we hold over our own destiny, our lives?

If I be more poetic, this one may believe in fate. To love one thing less myself, that would be great. I feel that a long year, nay, many long years have chilled mine heart. The now cold weather has engendered a start. That is a start to reflect on the past.

Can it be that there are actually key moments in any of our recent memories having to do with anime? Did one moment, one second, leave such an indelible mark on our thoughts as to define that simple instant as a key part of our life? Was it that important? Is it not simply an escape from those moments that would or do? Having simply some fun? Wasting some time? Running away?

If I be a more cynical person, this may seem a bit of a downer. I don’t believe that we are as simple as that. I don’t think that we are tools of fate. It may be so that we are defined by our past, but we don’t live there. Even though some may exist there, it would seem. Don’t play those memories repeatedly in your mind else they become your world.

I think what I’m trying to say is that one should live in the moment. I think that makes me a hypocrite. At any rate, School Rumble is a pretty good cure for the winter blues.