I’ve just finished sobbing to episode 8 of this Japanese drama called “1 Litre of Tears” so I’m going to do some promo for it. It’s a true story based on the life of a 15 year old girl who gets Spinocerebellar Degenerative Disease (and how she copes with it), which is a nervous diesase that basically stops all your nerves from working and you slowly become unable to do things like eat, walk or see. And then you die in the end.

Anyway, it’s much better than stupid Korean dramas where people’s favorite past times are losing their memory and/or getting adopted by other families while falling in love with their childhood best friend.

So I just finished sobbing. Then I got this email from a friend that I’ve been talking to on Skype (For Japanese class, we have to each talk to a student from Tokyo on SKype to improve our Nihongo).

Before this I’d asked her if she watched that drama.

I know the dorama which called “”1 little of tears”. When the dorama is on TV, I have a part time job as a tutor for a junior high school student every week. So I always watch it only the last seen sadly. However, even if it is only last seen, I also cry cry cry ; ; But I was suprised to hear that you also be able to watch Japanese drama in America. Is it usual? Is it famous? Is it on TV or can you rental videos from video shop or something like that? Is it translated into English?

Actually, I have ever been in hospital some times since when I was a child. Two years ago, I had been hospitalized for a year because of canser. So the drama reminds me of the time. I seem to have a genetic factor to be canser even if I’m young. When I took a lot of hard medicine, although it was very hard for me to endure them, thanks to many friends encouraged me or visited the hospital, I could overcome the disease I think. Now, I am so happy because I can live and eat and go to somewhere I want to. Being able to living is wonderful I think!!

Also, actually I have no sight now. Due to the canser, I lost my sight when I was 3 years old. Sorry to surprise you suddenly. However, I wanted to talk about myself with detail because I was glad to make friend with you.

I think that we can’t chose sickness or health sadly. However, we have to live as ourselves and we have to accept ourselves. So, I don’t care my ill or visually disability. So, please don’t care about my disability too!!

Talking to her on the phone I never suspected anything about her disability.

I think she might be my new hero.

I also dunno why I’m writing this entry. Maybe because I feel proud of her in a weird way even though I’ve never even met her.

I guess this entry is just to applaud her bravery.