Attack on Titan meats The Hundred-foot Journey

Conventional, I think is more a task to complete than a thing to be done.  Tasks are obstacles we set ourselves up to do.  Maybe we do this because we think they are the obstacles that will in turn complete us, what will make us successful in an arguably successful world.  To accomplish these tasks to some end we are merely ratified the fleeting prevalence of completion.  Things to be done, hold another argument, things that are set before us, not in anyway set there for us to take upon ourselves their completion, but rather a completeness set upon ourselves only when the thing holds standing all its own, with no further ritual or test to move onto the next.  To again lead to some sort of completeness or more accurately an end.  

Conventional is the act of doing one thing to uphold another to which leads to another, with in mind there being a light at the end of a tunnel leading to some brilliance that stamps our souls into the world rightly.  But what of the things done that are complete with no further steps, what of the things that are simply just being.  Are those small moments not the ones that are most brilliant?  Brilliance trumps conventional, for it stands its own.

Once upon a time there was a war, once upon a time there was a love.  May the war be between monsters that eat people, or people that love to eat.  If you were to take anything apart you would find, failure and flaw.  Sometimes these things are hidden much better than other times, but have no doubt every aspect ever thrown at you from any direction has them.  From a brilliantly done romance with food, set in France, sprinkled with Indian spices, to the gnashing of peoples bones in monstrous mouths set behind too many walls and fighting what seems a lost cause.  If asked of me to pick between the two ways of setting I could not give an answer because the truth is that we all love a little bit of both.  I do not want to give up one flavor over another, because I may love seafood, but Mexican food will have me knocking at its door in an instant just the same.

Inspired, Japanese rice ball, gourmet

We forget to savor, putting foods and flavors in our mouths just to taste them, that is what the American people have forgotten.  Much like the Titans as they stomp through the cites devouring everything in sight, we are the same.  We substitute taste for devouring, our pleasure does not come from the essence that made up the whole, but of the whole being consumed entirely.  

Food, that's what the two share in common, but I bet you didn't know they also shared one other thing.  The answer is patience, though it may not have seemed so by the pace of both the movie and the anime, both goals had one particular thing that could not have gone without were these characters to accomplish the things they had set out to accomplish.  Patience in mastery cooking, patience in mastering killing giant, cannibals.  This is where the flaw lies in both stories, though both take a substantial amount of patience, neither actually made this seem so.  Don’t get me wrong this is fantastic for pacing, to deceptively and deliberately, ignore all the slow parts of the story, but real life is much different.  

Though in my opinion The Hundred-foot Journey is a beautiful and delicious story of culture and diversity and Attack on Titan is a massive action packed, adventure, that sets the mind racing into the fantastic, reality will never be either story.  That's not to say there won't be aspects of each in reality, but we deal in the much slower, hard working realism of reality.  So I want to say this, no matter how you bury yourself in glorified, perfectly paced tales and stories, to live one of equal brilliancy demands moments that never lead to another, and incredible patience.  The idea is to work at something for too long and at every detail, before reaching the glorified end, for when you truly want something there are no done tasks that lead to the next task, it is an ever flowing, unending trudge to not an end, but a start, of something brilliant.

What is conventional is not the idea that one thing must lead to the next, but that when you continue on through one big thing to another that all the little things in between are part of the whole.  We will not consume this entirely for we are forced to live it in patience.  No matter the journeys Hassan and Eren lead us, we are only living in their worlds the way we live in ours, answering their questions the same way we answer our own, the moment we start answering their questions the way they do is the moment we immerse ourselves in their shoes and become more than ourselves, the best part about that is you always end up back in your own scuffed up sneakers.