well it doesn't work me up more than politics, but it has been an important part of my life for a long time now.
Animorphs really broadened my horizons. It was imaginative in was I could never conceive. The characters were realistic, tragic, and existed in some much depth that for so long it was hard to believe that it was made up. Back then it was a way to an infinite realm of endless possibility. Now it's a foundation for my ideals.
Ever since I started I would day dream about it: about joining the team, mixing it with other stories, creating my own plots with it, and though it's too a lesser extent, I still do those thing now. And I know for a fact I would not be the same person I am now without these books. Some manners, beliefs and standards all come straight for the books.
There are two things in particular it did to me that have maintained and actually become stronger over the years.
There is a quote that I'm to lazy to pull up and cite, but I'm sure it's familiar to you all: somewhere along the lines of "A warrior must be a scientist and an artist"
I judge people. I do. People I like and people I don't. And myself. And more and more my judging is based on that one line. The value I place on a person stems from how they think, how they can endure, how they can perceive life. Unfortunately more and more fewer people meet that ideal. But I still look for it. And I push it upon myself too. I try and live by that creed, too make myself and see others become more, the ideal warrior, something of only older stories and legends far before the Animorphs, but something I want to see restored
And the other thing, well, for a while Jara Hamee's line "free or dead" stood out to me. Not so much anymore, I've no interest in dying. But the alternative, too live a life of misery and whoa, too exist in agony and despair and the array of all other emotions both good and bad, it gives rise to that last thing. Even in the darkest hour, your dying moment, when you have no chance and nothing left to gain or lose, theres always hope. Always for something, something great, something new, or just something different, I'll take that for these books above all other things. It gave me ideas and dreams and entertain that will last a life time, but so much more is that it taught me, no matter what, hope.
yeah I know, too dam long. Sorry
