Real Life Shonen Protag

hope is a skill

hope is a weapon you are trained to wield

The good place last episode is crazy ‘cuz they really said. Here you are. You’re given a world where you get to have as much time as you can possibly have with your loved ones. You can live a hundred lifetimes over with them. A thousand. You can do everything you wanted to accomplish with them in life and then some. And yet it’s still not enough. You’re still begging for one last conversation. One last laugh. One last second. Love is overflowing and pure and constant and selfish and painful and although it would be so much easier you still can’t bear the thought of living without it. Even though it’s so horribly painful when you lose it.

The Good Place last episode is crazy cause it’s like, this is it. Paradise is just time with the people you love. And it’s not good unless it ends eventually. So we are so incredibly temporary and that is what makes us immortal. We are all the good parts of each other. We are a wave on the ocean and this is how we exist for now but not forever. Someday we will all be part of the same thing again, not because we have to but because we choose it. Just as we choose each other. Because togetherness and community and love is as close as we can get to being part of that great sea again as we can get.