1L of Tears

"Based on a true story

This story is about a girl named Aya who suffered from an incurable disease, Spinocerebellar Degeneration (in which the nerve cells of areas necessary for the human body to move and balance - including the cerebellum, brain stem, and spinal cord - transforms and eventually disappears), but lived life to the fullest until her death at 25. The original story is based on the diary Aya wrote before she could no longer hold a pen. The book that later followed entitled “One Liter of Tears" has sold over 1.1 million copies. Aya's only wish was “to live". By carefully depicting Aya's earnest desire to live, and the love of her family, friends, and lover, the drama “One Liter of Tears" hopes to deliver her simple yet strong message:

“Just being alive is such a lovely and wonderful thing."

I never like Jap/Korean drama series, but this particular drama really got me hooked. Ego aside, this is the first show that actually made me cry, and by cry i don't mean "teary eyed but never really falls" cry, I mean "tears falling down while making weird noises" cry. The drama not only shows the agony and seriousness of such disease, it portraits the cruelty of our society on how we look at people who suffers from illnesses that makes them behave abnormally. The stares, the avoidance, the teasing... It's just plain irony why God ever allows the induction of these. It's not just these handicapped people; how many times have we actually criticized people who is ugly or retarded? I am guilty of that, but i understand the fact that they are not given the choice to choose the way they are born, and if they are allowed to choose, will they choose to be abnormal?

Maybe it's time to hold back on what you are doing, sit down and just listen to the world for once.

Quoted by the heroine of this true story, "While other people struggling for their future, I'm struggling to live." *sniff*