A Slayers Choice

An interesting thought occurred to me this weekend whilst avoiding the heat of the sun with a relax full day of Buffy marathon goodness,

WARNING: the following contains emo content. You have been warned.

When I came across the scene in the final episode of season 5 where Buffy sacrifice’s herself to save the world, but before she does she pulls her sister over and gives her a really tearful speech and then run and jumps into deaths abyss
Now you know with the music and the acting, a person with at least an inkling of a heart would choke up just a bit, what really struck me out of the whole thing was the line she says to her sister:

"Dawn, the hardest thing in this world is to live in it. Be brave. Live. For me."

In these ever so lovely times we are living in: recession, relationships blah blah blah, it’s very easy to be sucked into the darkness of depression or the mask of denial (we all know how it goes). I’ve been going through a bit (okay) a lot of both recently and sometimes it got a bit too much, I think to myself, if life is hard then what’s the point? Should we just battle each day throughout our whole lives until we get so tired we fall over and die?

I like to think what Buffy means: is that you know what? Life is shit, life is not easy but just to breath is a gift enough, and once you appreciate it than you have something to fight for, coz the demons in our world aren’t the monsters under our beds but the ones that dwell in our minds, and I can tell you those are the scariest of all, but the most fruitless ones to fear.