Cartoon Attraction

[Mr. Marshmallow]

Being someone who's usually the first one to draw the line between real love and obsessional fictional love, I honestly have to say that I agree with Cass. They may not have physical arms or words to hold you with but that doesn't mean they can't be "there" for you.

In a sense, animated characters represent ideas and identities that we can love and cherish. A character's personality can be so admirable that just by watching them or hearing them speak alone can inspire great feelings inside of us. People get inspired by songs, books, stuffed animals, billboards, even quotes.

All non living things and non "hugging" things that continue to affect us emotionally. Something I do often in my daydreams is fantasize about the idea of what if one of those characters ended up here? What if as I stare out my car window as it drives by a landscape, I see someone fictional fall from the sky?

Is it wrong to actually dream to want to feel a fictional cartoon character, to actually imagine what they would say, how they would talk to you, or even to get a bit more personal, what would they think of you? I don't believe it is wrong because as long as you know the difference, they are always helping.

Sailor Jupiter or Frankie may not be flesh and blood enough to hug me when I feel sad, but that doesn't mean that they cannot inspire me to feel just as good about myself as if someone was really holding me. Cartoons inspire the world we want to live in, where things are simple, fantastic, and unique.

But they also inspire us as individuals, and that to me is a sign of being touched by a cartoon girl or guy for that matter. They are the animated representations of dreams and ideas that people overlook and disregard, they are the windows to people that we could all learn a thing or two from.

They may not be real but the impact they have on us as individuals and more importantly, for me, as a human being, is more powerful and more emotionally life changing then any woman I have personally met in my lifetime.