Anime Lectio: The Dreaming Boy is a Realist

                                                            1. Why do Anime Lectio? 

Anime Lectio is a time for us to stop and take a breath. Between work, activities, family life, and social media, our minds are always moving. We rarely take time to contemplate and ask, why am I watching this anime? What’s the point of all this? And, how is this making me feel? 

2. Put away all distractions 

(phones, work, etc.)

We are so enslaved to things that stimulate our minds. Let this be a moment for us to free our minds, look inside of ourselves, and be at peace.

3. Deep Breathing

Take several deep breaths. Let your mind relax. If you’ve had any questions, desires, or struggles that you’ve been hiding or stuffing away, let them rise up to the surface. 

4. Open yourself to God’s Presence

Remember God places all our thoughts and desires inside of us, and He uses them to draw us closer to Himself. God gives us a community to help us understand who we are and what He is calling us to do. The faces of other people you know and don't know are like signs of God’s presence.  

5. Think About What’s on Your Mind in Relation to the Anime

Think about what’s been on your mind in relation to the anime.  The following is an example of such thoughts written by me. 

Sometimes you don't know what you want to do until you get time to think about it.  Getting the time to think about it can happen by letting other people know that in ways that are appropriate to the situation and depend on what's happening.  Taking the time to think about it while other things are happening is also helpful since the other things that are happening can influence what you take the time to think about.  An example of this can be seen in the anime series The Dreaming Boy is a Realist.

6. Brief and written explanation of the anime

Pay attention to how the brief and written explanation of the anime seen on this blog, or seeing the anime for yourself since that's better than any explanation, might “speak” to you or shed light on the things that have been on your minds.

The anime series The Dreaming Boy is a Realist starts off with a boy who likes to spend a lot of time with a girl realizes that they shouldn't spend so much time together, even though he likes it since he's really grateful to the girl for helping him when he needed it. Due to this time apart, the girl becomes friends with several other girls in her class, which couldn't happen before with the boy spending a lot of time with her, while the boy spends time with other people in the school and in other ways too, like at a part time job. After this time apart goes on for a while, the girl realizes that she likes being around the boy and she finds him in order for things to go back to the way they were before they spent time apart, but in a better way, meaning not spending a lot of time together.

7.  Reflect on the anime

Has this brief and written explanation of the anime shed any light on what's been on your minds?  The following is an example of a reflection on the anime from me.

We all have dreams, but it's important to be realistic about them. Taking time to think about your dreams, as well as also using this time to talk with people about them and experience other things, is what makes these dreams more realistic. This is especially true when the dreams involve other people, which should always be the case. The real question here becomes how do your dreams involve other people, which is also something you should talk with the other people, or person, about in order to understand their dreams, what they want, and how it matches with what you want.

8. Final Prayer

Please voice any prayer intentions for friends, family, or people around the world that relate to this anime.  The following is an example written by me.

Let us pray that we can be realistic about our dreams by taking time to think about them and talk about them with others.