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Rated: E · Interactive · Psychology · #2339469

Here I will talk about characters from films, cartoons and TV series and their psychology.

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Chapter #3

Kurapika, always feeling out of place

    by: Winnie the Pooh Author IconMail Icon
Kurapika is the last survivor of the Kurta clan, a peaceful people exterminated by the Phantom troupe to take possession of their scarlet eyes, a priceless treasure.

From that moment on, his life is marked by a single goal: to avenge his clan and recover the stolen eyes.

To achieve his goal, he decides to become a Hunter, in order to access resources and information. During the Hunter exam, he becomes friends with Gon, Killua and Leorio, but even with them he always maintains a certain distance, consumed by his mission.

How many of us constantly feel out of place wherever we are? We don't feel a true belonging to a group, a place or anything. Every path always seems to be the wrong one and our actions never seem to lead to anything good.

Psychologist Rollo May wrote that the meaning of life is not something you find, but something you create. We give meaning to our days with the choices we make or don't make.

Kurapika perfectly embodies the feeling of being perpetually out of place, a discomfort that many young people, and not only, feel. Even when he is with his friends, he can never really feel part of something.

He shows us that feeling out of place can come from living anchored to the past or from too rigid expectations of who we should be. The eyes stolen from his people represent the theft of a social identity in which he can no longer identify.

The Kurta clan was his identity, his home, his family. With their extermination, Kurapika finds himself not only without a physical bond, but also without an emotional and cultural base that would allow him to define himself and feel part of something. He needs to find a new clan, a new family.

Many of us feel or have felt like Kurapika: stuck in an identity that we did not choose, prisoners of expectations, traumas or duties that seem insurmountable. But chains are not eternal: they can be broken by finding a new meaning to one's existence, day after day.

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