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

theverge.com:

Today, Square Enix released the music video for “Flow,” one of the main theme songs of Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, and friends, it’s a doozy. If you have work to do or need to be productive in any way today, do not, and I cannot stress this enough, watch this music video.

I have already shed half of my body’s moisture in tears. It was cathartic and necessary and so very much on time. And, for as much as I don’t appreciate trying to see through a curtain of water that just don’t seem to end, I deeply and truly appreciate this music video’s ability to just get me to stop and feel.

Life, right now, isn’t normal. People are dying of a disease we don’t seem to care enough about to stop. People cannot afford to live; people cannot afford to feed their babies; and people cannot afford to step out into the world without fear of being murdered by armed white supremacists who we also don’t seem to care enough about to stop. This is not normal! And yet, the mechanisms of capitalism make it such that we must continue acting as though everything is good and fine and okay in order to keep living.

I know that if I take a moment to think about what happened to my people in Buffalo —people with names like my older aunts, uncles, and grandmothers — I will lie down in grief and not get back up again. So, in order to keep going, I switched off. But along comes this silly video game with these fake people who mean nothing in the grand cosmic 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 living bubbled up and out, and it feels so sad but so good that I have no words for it. I needed that reminder of my humanity. I needed Hydaelyn’s