This Final Fantasy XIV music video is going to make you cry

The music video for Flow, one of the main theme songs of Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, was released today. If you have work to do or need to be productive in any way today, do not, and watch this music video.

I have already lost half of my body weight. It was necessary and necessary on time. I don't appreciate trying to see through a curtain of water that doesn't seem to end, but I appreciate this music video's ability to just get me to stop and feel.

Life right now is not normal. People are dying of a disease that we don't seem to care about. People can't afford to live, people can't afford to feed their babies, and people can't afford to step out into the world without fear of being murdered by white supremacists. This is not normal. The mechanisms of capitalism make it necessary for us to act as though everything is okay in order to live.

I will not get up again if I think about what happened to my people in Buffalo. I switched off in order to keep going. This silly video game with these fake people who mean nothing in the grand scale of the world saying, "Welcome and well met my brave little spark, and every emotion that I have heretofore have tried to deny myself just to keep", came along. I needed that reminder of who I am. I needed her message in the song that said, "It's okay, brave one, I've got you."

The thing that continually gets me about Endwalker is that it has a mature conception of the cessation of life. Unlike most video games, it doesn't trivialize the trauma of death, but it does treat death as an evil to conquer. Death is a sweet and gentle rest that comes at the end of a beautiful journey. Death should never be met with despair, even though it is not without sadness.

Hush, love, close your eyes, and in sleep abide, as sun's distant light echoes down to dreams below.

All of Final Fantasy XIV's music is good. I have nothing but admiration and awe for Masayoshi Soken's piano, Natsuko Ishikawa's lyrics, and the vocals of Amanda Achen. Make sure you block out your schedule when you get the chance to listen. You may be crying for a while.