<story><title>Calvin and Hobbes Is Great Literature</title><url>https://lithub.com/why-calvin-and-hobbes-is-great-literature/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>Something I like about Calvin and Hobbes was how I was able to change from &amp;quot;reading it because its funny&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;reading it to make me think&amp;quot; without really noticing it.&lt;p&gt;My favorite &amp;quot;arc&amp;quot; is when Calvin finds the dying raccoon, takes him in to try and save him, the raccoon dying, and realizing that even though he&amp;#x27;s sad that the he died, he&amp;#x27;s still glad to have met him while he had the chance.&lt;p&gt;Calvin coming to terms with death, and realizing that even though fatalism is basically the only inevitable outcome in the long-term, it&amp;#x27;s important to enjoy life now and enjoy the current relationships we have is enough to get me teary-eyed (even to this day), and has greatly shaped my outlook on life, since I read it when I was really young.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a great comic, and despite centering on a child, it does a really good job at using that kind of innocence as a means to make a commentary.  Watterson resisted the urge to talk about politics or pop-culture, and instead focus on people, and as a result the comic will always be timeless to me</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scott_s</author><text>&amp;quot;Still.. in a sad, awful, terrible way, I&amp;#x27;m happy I met him. What a stupid world&amp;quot;: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gocomics.com&amp;#x2F;calvinandhobbes&amp;#x2F;1987&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;16&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gocomics.com&amp;#x2F;calvinandhobbes&amp;#x2F;1987&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;16&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think that one spoke to a lot of people - it certainly speaks to me. I agree with your reading, but the last line also always said to me: it&amp;#x27;s okay to look at something awful and call it as such. We can acknowledge it and move on.</text></comment>
<story><title>Calvin and Hobbes Is Great Literature</title><url>https://lithub.com/why-calvin-and-hobbes-is-great-literature/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>Something I like about Calvin and Hobbes was how I was able to change from &amp;quot;reading it because its funny&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;reading it to make me think&amp;quot; without really noticing it.&lt;p&gt;My favorite &amp;quot;arc&amp;quot; is when Calvin finds the dying raccoon, takes him in to try and save him, the raccoon dying, and realizing that even though he&amp;#x27;s sad that the he died, he&amp;#x27;s still glad to have met him while he had the chance.&lt;p&gt;Calvin coming to terms with death, and realizing that even though fatalism is basically the only inevitable outcome in the long-term, it&amp;#x27;s important to enjoy life now and enjoy the current relationships we have is enough to get me teary-eyed (even to this day), and has greatly shaped my outlook on life, since I read it when I was really young.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a great comic, and despite centering on a child, it does a really good job at using that kind of innocence as a means to make a commentary.  Watterson resisted the urge to talk about politics or pop-culture, and instead focus on people, and as a result the comic will always be timeless to me</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>babblingdweeb</author><text>Thank you for sharing! I know this exact arc very well and have referenced it a few times in my life (sent to friends, talked about it, etc). Death is not usually an easy topic, so when this arc is relevant, but maybe not to death, I use it to discuss what is finite.&lt;p&gt;Personally, I found the the more I looked at concept of most&amp;#x2F;all things being finite, the more appreciation for those things, people, moments, food, jobs, projects, etc I have. I haven&amp;#x27;t become a mindful monk by any stretch, but it has both shaped and improved my outlook in many ways.</text></comment>