One Piece and Piecing Together a Dream
The moral case for working towards a dream you want to achieve.
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People don't always remember their dreams.
More often than not you remember a little piece of it instead of the whole thing. These dreams can be very simple and unimportant. Others can have a lot of power over you. These dreams can give you purpose and a better understanding of yourself. Dreams can give you hope and drive you to achieve things. Even if they're just bits and pieces. However, over time you have more dreams and remember different pieces of them. Until you can find pieces that fit together in some way, giving you a whole picture of what you want to do and who you want to be. These dreams don't necessarily have to come when you're asleep either.
You can have an incredible experience like the first time you play a sport like baseball or football. Or even a game like chess or solving puzzles. It can make you dream about the potential for you to succeed in playing these games and the possibility of being recognized for being good at it. Assuming you can put in the time and energy to become really good at playing them. The longer you go about them the more invested and determined you can become in achieving these goals. Hopefully in the process you can find other people who share in the dream you have, or want to help you achieve it because it can help them achieve a dream of their own.
Things like gaining money and power, or even just recognition for something they are doing to make things better can help. You might be able to build a team around you dedicated to whatever your dreams are. Of course, in doing so you might have to help other people in your team achieve their dreams. Although maybe what you're doing could get in the way and the thing you can do is allow people on your team to do what they need to even if it doesn't involve you. Something which might get them hurt or risk their lives. What you want is to achieve your dreams and for other people to achieve theirs. If that's your ultimate goal, how can you get in their way?
One Piece is at its core about doing your best to put together a workable dream. Monkey D Luffy, as played by Inaki Godoy, has a dream he wants to achieve. To find the One Piece and become king of the pirates. A dream that people around him think is crazy. Even those who are themselves looking for the One Piece as well think he doesn't have a chance at it. But he has a dream and he isn't willing to give it up for anything. What he needs in order to do it though is a team of people who will go along with his plan, some of them reluctantly. His dream is something he believes in no matter who might want to think he can't.
It can be inspirational to watch the journey he and his crew go on.
Do yourself a favour and check out the piecing together of a dream by watching One Piece as soon as you can.
One Piece is available on Netflix.
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I haven't watched this standalone movie on One Piece, as I read through your article I think the creators of this film have seriously put an effort to maintain the essence of the manga
Because traditionally pirates didn't have that hierarchical thing - it was outside monarchy and that type of milieu.
Even though you may be doing a service or providing a service.
If you were recognised as a pirate it was really to do with style.
Sometimes it's the "simple" and "unimportant" dreams - the mundane - which DO have a great deal of power.
I definitely believe in dreams in the daytime.
That ONE PIECE - it's what draws people to shipwrecks and to dark tourism.
[For a bit more about some aspects of Dark Tourism - PHILOSOPHER'S ZONE].
Just listened to an awesome podcast about moral development through the world of Jerry Maguire. It is on POP CULTURE PARENTING.
So I think about rewards; punishments; community recognition.
And the quest thing - this is SO LORD OF THE RINGS
[especially the teamwork - the reluctant teamworkers like Frodo and Bilbo - for different reasons].
And recognising intent [doing your best].
About dreams being supported or not by the people most immediately around you - a show called THIS TOWN [Stephen Knight] exemplifies this for me.
Eventually Dante draws in his brother and his father - his girlfriend; the record store merchant; his cousin and also a drummer.
More dreaming and more workable dreams!