"Suki" ga Nai Shoujo no Christmas... - Oneshot

[That-Guy]

The story goes:

• Primary school aged girl anxious about how she's so different to how she perceives everyone else. She seems to have no feelings, and feels like a fake.
• She gets to meet her older self, who is callous, more selfish, more jaded. But also more confident, and who tells her things are going to be okay, that she's normal.
• At the very end, her primary school aged self has written, "Thank you Santa, for the best present."

That is, she knows that when she grows up, she will change, at least in her anxiety and insecurity, and that she will be okay. THAT's the moral of the story. It's not trying to preach some pessimistic theory about how society functions, but just saying, "Hey man, you might be insecure, but things are gonna be alright. You're gonna grow, you're gonna get busy, and things are gonna be alright. You'll like the person that you become."

@HawkGoggles @BCS @That-Guy

HawkGoggles put into words majority of what I was going to say. Thanks for the breakdown btw. Although I still have to say I wasn't talking about the morals of the story being about pessimistic theory, nor did I say it was preaching, but more on how the author's way of writing character dialogues or thoughts feels very pessimistic. Still, I do admit your interpretation is probably more in-line with the message the author wanted to convey. The tone and delivery was just confusing for me.

 

[CyanHide]

It's when reading manga like this that I stop shitposting and start appreciating the comments section on Mangadex

 

[JustSomeGuyOnHisPhone]

The signs were there for the Santa magic stuff to happen. And I think the message from it is something like "you don't have to like things" or something like that, but honestly I don't really care what the exact message is because either way I really enjoyed this oneshot

 

[Firemorfox]

I want to cry.

I want to scream.

Am I feeling nothing? Or am I feeling so many things, that I can’t even recognize my emotions anymore?

 

[Silfir]

Her younger self thought she had to believe in at least one thing she was told she should believe in (or "want" one thing it was societally acceptable to want, like money or love or fame or kids), or it meant she was broken or incomplete. Encountering her older self reassured her that she wasn't broken, wrong, a failure, or anything like that for not being able to figure it out on her own, or not being able to accept anyone else's answer. It's her own life. Only she can tell if any given answer is right or not, and nobody gets to tell her off for struggling to find it.

 

[JustAU-]

I quite liked this I had a feeling they were the same person

It was surprisingly a nice concept and story