So recently, I've finally completed reading Narcissu after basically 2 months (due to school and laziness coming to me, lol), I have got to say, it felt mesmerizing reading it, from reading the character's dialogue, to its beautiful music. I can say, without a doubt, that you should play it by yourself, you will not regret it! (Also, spoilers will be on this post, so be warned!!) LINK OF THE GAME
Anyways, let's be on topic. There's that one character, named Setsumi, who lived her whole life dealing with a terminal illness. And because of those circumstances, she has to stay in the hospital to treat her illness, only leaving from it to go to her home 3 times. Once that number reached to three, yup, go back to the hospital and never leave there forever. Because of that, she basically just given up on her dreams, her aspirations, her joy and her life. She can just die in the hospital or in her house if she wants to, but she doesn't want that. That's where Yuu Atou* comes in. He, like Setsumi, has a terminal illness and was taken to the hospital to be taken care of. He felt bored by just being in hospital reading comic, so he went to the living room of the hospital and met Setsumi there. At first, they didn't interact that much, but after watching the narcissus flower that was shown on the TV, they decided to escape from the hospital using his father's car and go to the island that have the narcissus flowers.
After escaping the hospital, they arrived at a lake during night-time, they stopped there. Then Setsumi walked towards the lake, contemplating about committing suicide, which then she asked Yuu whether he would stop her or not, which he wondered for a while...
After this event, they kept on going in their journey. While going to their journey, they had times of peace, sadness and happiness. When they finally arrived at the island, both of them looked at the beautiful narcissus, then stayed in their car for few days.
Once they got out of the car to go to the shores of the island, Yuu took pictures of Setsumi, where she smiled for the first time in her life. Then, she asked him about the same question she told when they were on the lake. She then took her own life, and that's where the story ends.
You know, even though both of them have a terminal illness where they'll never recover from it no matter what, and then die, they still experienced life to the fullest on their journey to the island, and it made me reflect. If they can live life through their journey with the limited time they have, why should I waste my time doing nothing. when I have the miracle to be alive and not having a terminal illness? And that's what I think is the theme of Narcissu, is to live life to the fullest even with the limited time you have in this world. That's the way I see it.
Thank you for reading this and have a blessed day.
(*: While he doesn't have a name in the visual novel, he was given a name on the supplementary works of Narcissu.)
