Watching
Shirobako. It's about a group of people whose dream is to get involved in the anime industry. We kind of see them learning what the actual work is like and learning what they actually want to do in life and struggling with initial failures and that kind of thing.
The show definitely has a lot of applicability for me. I really relate to the main character who doesn't know specifically what her dream even is. I myself have no clue what I want to do. I'm just out of college working at a tech related place. This is
so not where I want to be but I honestly don't know what else to do. Another girl knows that she wants to be involved in the actual animation but struggles with getting better and fears that initial failures will close the possibility of future advancement. Snap, I deal with so much of that at work. Every time I fail I catastrophize that now I won't be given any real responsibilities. Another character is an older guy who has fallen from glory after one big failure. I'm not old enough for that to have happened to me but it's still very topical.
I love it when a song, movie, book, game, show, or whatever speaks to you right where you are.
Edit: More on that older guy. He keeps doubting what he's made and critiquing it, trying to figure out what's the problem and what he really wants. Initially his criticism is of the "too many notes" variety. He just can't figure out what he really wants. But when they talk things through he starts to figure it out as they go and flies into a passion. It's great. It's about continual re-discovery of what you want.
