A Silent Voice didn’t just make me emotional
it made me look at myself in a way I’d been avoiding. Watching Shoya carry the weight of what he did, seeing him genuinely hate the person he used to be, hit me harder than I expected. The movie shows him trying to rebuild himself piece by piece, not because anyone told him to, but because he couldn’t stand living as someone he didn’t respect. And somewhere in all that, I saw my own struggle with porn addiction reflected back at me. I felt that same shame, that same frustration with who I’d let myself become. Seeing Shoya fight to change made me want to fight too. It made me believe that I could choose to be better, even if it’s messy and slow. His story didn’t just move me it pushed me toward becoming wanting to become a better version of my self who can live without porn, someone I can look at without feeling disappointed. In Shoya’s journey, I saw proof that even when you feel broken, you can still choose to grow.