I'm 200 eps deep into Gintama and I'm so emotional about the "lesson" being time and time again that there is no lesson: that life is random and nonsensical and sometimes good things happen and sometimes bad things happen, that sometimes things are unfair and other times they are silly and more often than not you won't get an explanation.
Sometimes things will devastate you, sometimes you will lose, sometimes the thing you consider to be your purpose in life is taken from you for no reason, and you can scream and complain and ask "why is this happening to me" and then you just have to keep going. There's no use holding onto the past and to the mistakes you have made (because you will make mistakes) you can only make peace with yourself and where you are, find a new purpose and keep picking yourself up again and again and again .
There's no higher meaning so you have to make your own, create a code for yourself and live by it, celebrate the mundane and find meaning in your own way. But most of all remember that every single person you meet is also going through the same shit that you are, so be kind, treat everyone as an equal and do your best to help anyone that you can.
We are all just ships passing each other in the night, so leave your light on and don't walk away from somebody suffering. It's our bonds and community that keep us from despair.
