One litre of tears

Have you heard about "One litre of tears"? It's a Japanese drama based on the true story of a Japanese girl named Kito Aya who had the disease called Spinocerebellar Degeneration.

In the drama, Aya was diagnosed with this disease when she was 15 years old, and was able to continue her life until her death at the age of 25 years old. She kept writing in her diary to remember her experiences until she could no longer hold a pen. Aya simply wished to live until the end of her life, and the purpose of writing in the diary was to remind herself to not give up. She shed tears many times, at the same time encompassed by the rich love and support from her family, friends, and boyfriend. Her diary "1 Litre of Tears" was published after her death, because of its inspiring and courageous message of, "Just being alive is such a lovely and wonderful thing." So far, over 18,000,000 copies of her diary have been sold.

The story is nice, encouraging, funny and definitely very sad. I just watched it with my girlfriend for the whole day today. We needed to put a tissue box beside us, as it was really full of tear flowed while watching it, episode to episode.

If you have time, try to grab this drama and watch it. In this fast life pace nowadays, sometimes we need this kind of encouraging story to live our life more meaningful.