#nerdy rant

this is the lamest thing i will have ever said but I am pretty sure the main reason i see things the way i do now is because i was a HUGE  ANIME NERD 

But wait -there is actually some basis to this hear me out! 

I watched a large variety of genres of anime with a large variety of characters, but in particular a lot of shows that REMAIN to be my personal favorites made big impacts on me and formed a lot of my ideas today 

(still sounds really lame though)..

I gained a passion in particular for thinking very deeply about myself and others- of thinking about what their reasoning might be for doing things! One thing anime and manga are good at, albeit MAYBE a little excessively, would be delving DEEPLY into characters. Often their whole personalities are picked apart and struggled through and they grow through both positive and negative interactions with others. I began to see that not all conflicts are bad, and that confronting yourself for doing things is actually a good source of growth and development.

I also became better at WANTING to understand people. In a lot of my favorite shows, the characters often had complicated motivations. I gradually improved on piecing together how people's actions very subtly displayed those motivations, and thus found it more interesting to try and understand the people around me. Instead of seeing them on just their outward actions, I grew more pensive about their motivations and their thought patterns because it was customary in the shows I was watching. -This is kinda unfinished because I lost my train of thought, but 

What I;m trying to say is-