The most touching drama i came across. I bet everyone who watch it will sure have tears rolling down their face.
Based on a true story..
This story is about a girl named Aya who suffered from an incurable disease, but lived life to the fullest until her death at 25. The original story is based on the diary Aya kept writing until she could no longer hold a pen. The book that later followed entitled “One Liter of Tears" has sold over 1.1 million copies.
Aya's only wish was “to live." By carefully depicting Aya's earnest desire to live, and the love of her family, friends, and lover, the drama, “One Litre of Tears" wishes to deliver her simple but strong message: “Just being alive is such a lovely and wonderful thing."
Not something special, just a memory of a girl who was chosen by a special illness.
here are some touching phrase she wrote in her diary "One Litre of Tears"...
- if i were a flower, then now i'd be a seed, i shall treasure the beginning of my youth without regrets
- why did this disease choose me? i cannot carry it, if it's just the word "fate"
- if it weren't for this disease, i might even be in love i wan to cling to someone's arm so badly
- i'll no longer say i want to go back to those days. i will acknowledge who i am now and live on.
- that is why i will never ever run away. then, maybe someday...
- friends, i'm grateful for treating me as their equal. "ah, i 'm so glad" it is alright for me to think i wasn't always a burden to them, isn't it?
- if you look up at the sky when you fall, the vast blue sky is smiling at you today too. i am alive.
- humans are not to live in the past. it'll be fine if we do what we can now.
- the ma,wa,pa, and n lines are getting harder to enunciate. instead of forming sounds, only air escapes from my mouth, so nobody understands me. lately i talked to myself a lot. i used to hate it, but since it's a good enunciation practice, i'll keep doing it. it's no different than talking to somebody else.
- reality is too cruel and too brutal. it won't allow me to even have a dream. when i imagine the future, the tears come again.
- where should i go? even if there is no answer if i write, at least i'll feel better. i'm in need of a helping hand but i can neither see nor reach it. facing the darkness, all you hear are the echoes of my broken words....
the most touching phrase....
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mum,
dad,
doctor,
will i ever be able to marry?
i know
but even so..
someday, when that day comes,
I want to be surrounded by lots of flowers and sleep forever.>>
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letter to asou:
Dear Asou-kun,
I don't think i can say this face to face,
so i'm writing you a letter.
For always being by my side, Thank You.
To see that you've found your dream and seeing you alive and exhilarated makes me happy too.
Your future is infinitely expanding.
But, that's not the case for me.
The future that's left for me is a struggle to figure out how i'll go on living.
That's it.That's all there is.
There's nothing we can do about this gap between us.Everyday.
i'm fighting a battle with myself.The worrying and the suffering...
It's all i can do to suppress these feelings.
To Asou-kun... I'll be honest with youWhen i'm with you, it's painful.
Wanting to do this... and that...
How i'd be able to do them if only i were healthy...
I can't help but to think that way.
When i'm with you,I keep dreaming big dreams that could never come true.
Of course, it's not your fault.
But, I envy you so much, and i feel so pitiful.
I can't help... but feel even more miserable with myself.
If i'm like that, I can't go on living facing ahead...
For all you've done for me, Thank you.
For saying that you love me for who i am, Thank you.
For not being able to give you anything in return, I'm sorry.
i can't see you anymore
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The incurable disease is call spinocerebellar atrophy.
Spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) is one of a group of genetic disorders characterized by slowly progressive incoordination of gait and often associated with poor coordination of hands, speech, and eye movements. Frequently, atrophy of the cerebellum occurs.
As with other forms of ataxia, SCA results in unsteady and clumsy motion of the body due to a failure of the fine coordination of muscle movements, along with other symptoms.
The symptoms of the condition vary with the specific type (there are several), and with the individual patient. Generally, a person with ataxia retains full mental capacity but may progressively lose physical control.
