I actually have a whole bunch of stuff on my mind... but i felt compelled to share my thoughts when I rewatched 5 seconds of the OAV called Voices of a Distant Star (aka Hoshi no Koe). If you're not interested in anime, skip to next section. Voices of a Distant Star (from now on referred to as HnK or VoaDS), i think, is and will always be one of my favorite OAV/Anime. The emotions conveyed and received are so strong, I feel them again just by seeing the movie title. The loneliness and helplessness of Nagamine is just unbelievable. The end was so depressing.... with a helpless Nagamine trapped in space with a whole alien fleet rushing towards her a few thousand light years away from Earth and her high school boyfriend still on Earth, it conveys things beyond the surface. For those who understood the surface, they would receive the same reaction as my brother's: "okay, she died, so what?" But the deeper meaning goes so much further. Two lovers seperated by time and space, only able to communicate through cell phone text messaging. But with each message, the distance between them grows but such large quantities that the messages take a week to reach the other side, then a month, then a year, then eight years.... What is even more saddening, is that this long-distance love relationship carries on for many years. Noboru (Nagamine's BF) becomes "one who will only wait for Nagamine's letters." He so faithful and resolved to wait for Nagamine's return that he goes on waiting for her letters for 8 years without getting one, 8 years without going for someone else. Ah.... it makes me depressed and sad to even think about it.... I almost wanted to cry both times when I watched it.... Onto slightly more happier and refreshing thoughts.... Will I win the GMAA All-Star Wrestling Championships, should I go to the Canada Games? Questions, decisions, doubts.... Should I skip my robotics banquet to go perform/drum "I Will Survive" and "Take Me Out" at a doctor's reunion? Ugh.... any more of these questions and my head will blow >.<>.>