~1 Litre of tears~

Recently I had watched a Jap drama, "1 Litre of tears." From the title I know that it is a kind of sad story... The show is acted by pretty and sweet Sawajiri Erika, at first I thought she is Fukada. This is based on true story that touches lots of people.

The character Sawajiri Erika acted is Kito Aya who had a disease called Spinocerebellar Degeneration. This disease has no cure in modern medicine. It is some kind of brain and spinal disorder. The sickness will slowly take away the walking ability and all your limbs will start to failed. And slowly you will have even the problem in speech. You can feel and think but cannot speak. And you may even die of choking of food because your throat will also fail to move the food down. Usually it only happens in adults of 50 age and above. But it happened to a teenage girl of 15 years old. Aya got the support of her family and friends. Although she is not from rich family, she has a family of warm and love. She had survived for 10 years. During these 10 years, she had wrote diary of her daily thoughts and feeling. To us writing a diary on a book is a very troublesome thing to do. To her, it is a very difficult task because of her illness. Until she had lost her ability to write, she kept writing to remind herself to be strong and keeping herself alive. After her death, her diary has published and over 18,000,000 copies of her diary have been sold. It inspired lots of people. One of her quotes “Just being alive is such a lovely and wonderful thing.” It really inspired a lot of people. I really think that if it happens to me, I don’t think I can survive. I had started watching and from the 1^st episode, I can felt the pain that she has. It really will make your tears drop. It has some part which is quite funny too.

In the drama, Aya had went to school and fall in love with a guy, but after he knows that she is ill, he stay away from her. The other guy, Asou who had change into a good person because of her and later they fall in love with each other. Soon she had problem of walking to school, people laugh at her whenever she goes. Her little brother had felt a shame of her because his friends laugh at him. But later her sister Ako, found out and scolded him. Ako said that if she had this sickness, she may not even get out of the house. She sad that Aya is very braved and should felt proud to have such a sister. Later, Aya had to be on wheelchair. It is hard to get to school, so she is force to quit and went to a handicap school. In that school, she continued to write her diary even though she had trouble writing. Her spirit is strong, her family is full of love and care. It kept her fighting spirit strong. In the end she had lost her speech ability, and finally passed away at 25 years old at 1988. After her death, she encourage lots of people who had been ill to continue to live.

Some time ago, there was a TV program about a 4 or 5 years old girl who got a brain cancer which is not able to cure. Her parents try to spend every dollar to make her happy by making all her wish come true. Her sister is a bit jealous of her but knows that she is going to die so had no complain. As a child she had travel a lot of places and had her almost every wish come true. It is indeed much happier than any other child.

After I watch the drama, I really think that it is good to be alive and able to move around with ease. I may have some problem but compared to her it is nothing. In the drama, it showed that the average family that Aya had is much happier than Asou even though he had a rich parents he is not happy. It is a very good drama. Must watch!