I just finished watching the Japanese drama 一公升的眼淚 (A Liter of Tears), which I started watching back when I was still in LA. I caught the final episode on TV tonight, and right now, my eyes are so swollen and tired from all that crying. This is one show where I can actually cry through the whole thing. I think it's a good thing I kinda skipped a couple (like five) episodes otherwise my eyes would be way more swollen than it is right now.

It's based on a true story about a girl with Spinocerebellar Atrophy. Basically it's a disease where the cerebellum atrophies :P useful, huh? Anyway, they basically lose control of fine motor movements and eventually can't walk, speak, swallow, and most likely will die as there is no known cure for the disease. :( Anyway, although she goes through the part of asking why her and being in despair, in the end, she holds on and tries her best to help others. She writes in her diaries, which she publishes in a magazine for hospital patients, and she inspires other people with the same disease to continue fighting and living and not giving up. Anyway, I'm doing a bad job explaining it, but man, I wish I had her spirit (not her disease >.<). I don't know how she manages to keep fighting and her spirits high and continue to be selfless in the face of death. She doesn't give up and appreciates her family like no other.

There's this one scene, towards the end, where she's telling her doctor that if/when she dies, she wants to donate her body to science because she wants to be useful to the other patients with her disease and also to the doctors in hopes of finding what causes this kind of disease. And it's like, wow, even in pain and suffering she can still be so strong and selfless. T~T

And the last scene, when the parents and the doctor are standing at the grave of the girl, you see all the people she's touched in her life coming towards them, not just her friends, classmates, and family, but also others with her same disease who are in wheelchairs and look up to her for her positive attitude during her sickness. It was so touching.

Sigh. It's so sad and touching. Non-stop crying. I should probably stop complaining about my misfortunes from now on.