thefirstluminary
never knows best
- Mar 9, 2026
- 219
Sorry for the wall of text, and I'm not even sure if this is the right sub-forum to post in, but it felt like this belonged here. I know most people will probably scroll past this, but I just needed to get it off my chest. It's been weighing on my mind for the longest now.
I was playing a video game called Dragon Quest VI the other day, and I realized that being ambitious and helpful is such a beautiful thing. Seeing the hero feel passionate, losing again and again, feeling sad, but pushing through it despite everything and sticking to hope no matter the circumstances it makes everyone around him happy, and they trust him.
You can call it "cope" or whatever, but hope is real, and it's great.
I have always been a hopeful kid in the past so ambitious, and everyone loved me for that. I was never miserable or black-pilled. I had faith that things would get better. I had hope that everything would turn out okay, and even if it didn't, I knew I would still push through it. Back in the day, even my friends who were sad I managed to pull them out of it and show them the beauty of hope.
But eventually, I became a very negative, sad person myself. No more hope, just misery. That misery and sadness only created a toxic environment for me, bringing more miserableness. I started to watch darker media because I related to those characters. But even while watching those shows or playing those games, I noticed something: most of those stories still have hope in them. Most of the time, there is a good ending.
Those characters were just on a screen just a wall of text or a voice but they resemble us. They failed many times, they messed up many times, but they managed to pull through. Even if they didn't reach exactly what they wanted, they still tried in the end. No wonder people love media about hope so much. Stories of heroes saving the world, or characters going through so much until they reach their goal... it doesn't matter if they immediately succeed or not; what matters is that they tried.
Even in depressive, dark stories, the main character usually manages to get a good ending just a little sparkle of hope in it, even if it was tragic. People usually don't like the characters who put the main hero down. People see themselves in the hero; they see that sparkle of hope and wanna be better. I wanna be that cool hero who everyone loves, who helps everyone, and who people look up to.
Like they say: you can either give up, or you can die trying. Get busy dying, or get busy living and trying. Even in video games, you get to choose to retry or exit the game. The option to retry is always there, just like the option to quit and delete the game is always there. You can quit for good, or you can continue to die over and over again until eventually, you do it you reach your destiny. Haven't you seen the amount of people talking about how video games managed to save them? It's because games are full of hope. You play again, and again, and again. You die, you quit, but you come back. It's like that until you reach your goal, and even if you don't, you still tried.
I don't get why people choose to be black-pilled and be a doomer all the time. You only bring yourself down and others with you. Even in stories, video games, and anime, the character with hope in his heart is the one people always look up to.
Back in the day, none of my friends were really down because I influenced them. One time, my friend saw my face and told me I looked sad. I told him, "No, I will never be." He said that if I was sad and down, he and everyone else would be too. And I see that it's correct. When I was full of hope, my friends would have times where they started hating everything and getting depressed, but I was there, and it helped them, even a little bit.
But at some point, when I started to get sad, isolating myself, and not talking to anyone, everyone started to get down too. They got influenced by my bad behavior, and I hated it to the point where I distanced myself so I wouldn't make anyone around me miserable.
I wanna be the cool hero who helps everyone out despite going through a lot. I want to actually influence people and have even a little sparkle of hope, stick around, and be something doesn't matter what it is, big or small. But I failed at that. Now I'm a miserable piece of shit with nothing around me, and I hate it. I wish I was a hero who could save the world and be likable, but I'm not that.
But even wishing for it without actually making efforts to do it is meaningless.
Hope is cool. I hate depression. I hate sadness. They are lame. Being miserable is lame. Being black-pilled is lame. Misery is lame.
I've been feeling hope after noticing that a lot of the media I consume on the internet is always mostly about hope. It made me think that it is truly a beautiful thing to have hope. To anyone who came across this post: have a wonderful day and a great week ahead.
I was playing a video game called Dragon Quest VI the other day, and I realized that being ambitious and helpful is such a beautiful thing. Seeing the hero feel passionate, losing again and again, feeling sad, but pushing through it despite everything and sticking to hope no matter the circumstances it makes everyone around him happy, and they trust him.
You can call it "cope" or whatever, but hope is real, and it's great.
I have always been a hopeful kid in the past so ambitious, and everyone loved me for that. I was never miserable or black-pilled. I had faith that things would get better. I had hope that everything would turn out okay, and even if it didn't, I knew I would still push through it. Back in the day, even my friends who were sad I managed to pull them out of it and show them the beauty of hope.
But eventually, I became a very negative, sad person myself. No more hope, just misery. That misery and sadness only created a toxic environment for me, bringing more miserableness. I started to watch darker media because I related to those characters. But even while watching those shows or playing those games, I noticed something: most of those stories still have hope in them. Most of the time, there is a good ending.
Those characters were just on a screen just a wall of text or a voice but they resemble us. They failed many times, they messed up many times, but they managed to pull through. Even if they didn't reach exactly what they wanted, they still tried in the end. No wonder people love media about hope so much. Stories of heroes saving the world, or characters going through so much until they reach their goal... it doesn't matter if they immediately succeed or not; what matters is that they tried.
Even in depressive, dark stories, the main character usually manages to get a good ending just a little sparkle of hope in it, even if it was tragic. People usually don't like the characters who put the main hero down. People see themselves in the hero; they see that sparkle of hope and wanna be better. I wanna be that cool hero who everyone loves, who helps everyone, and who people look up to.
Like they say: you can either give up, or you can die trying. Get busy dying, or get busy living and trying. Even in video games, you get to choose to retry or exit the game. The option to retry is always there, just like the option to quit and delete the game is always there. You can quit for good, or you can continue to die over and over again until eventually, you do it you reach your destiny. Haven't you seen the amount of people talking about how video games managed to save them? It's because games are full of hope. You play again, and again, and again. You die, you quit, but you come back. It's like that until you reach your goal, and even if you don't, you still tried.
I don't get why people choose to be black-pilled and be a doomer all the time. You only bring yourself down and others with you. Even in stories, video games, and anime, the character with hope in his heart is the one people always look up to.
Back in the day, none of my friends were really down because I influenced them. One time, my friend saw my face and told me I looked sad. I told him, "No, I will never be." He said that if I was sad and down, he and everyone else would be too. And I see that it's correct. When I was full of hope, my friends would have times where they started hating everything and getting depressed, but I was there, and it helped them, even a little bit.
But at some point, when I started to get sad, isolating myself, and not talking to anyone, everyone started to get down too. They got influenced by my bad behavior, and I hated it to the point where I distanced myself so I wouldn't make anyone around me miserable.
I wanna be the cool hero who helps everyone out despite going through a lot. I want to actually influence people and have even a little sparkle of hope, stick around, and be something doesn't matter what it is, big or small. But I failed at that. Now I'm a miserable piece of shit with nothing around me, and I hate it. I wish I was a hero who could save the world and be likable, but I'm not that.
But even wishing for it without actually making efforts to do it is meaningless.
Hope is cool. I hate depression. I hate sadness. They are lame. Being miserable is lame. Being black-pilled is lame. Misery is lame.
I've been feeling hope after noticing that a lot of the media I consume on the internet is always mostly about hope. It made me think that it is truly a beautiful thing to have hope. To anyone who came across this post: have a wonderful day and a great week ahead.
