What I learned from Frieren: Beyond Journey's End as a nursing student

*This article contains spoilers regarding the story and character emotions of "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End."
Please be aware if you have not watched it.

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"Human lives are so short, aren't they?"

These are the words that stayed with me the most after watching "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End."

Frieren is a long-lived elf.
Even when she travels with human companions, they grow old and pass away in the blink of an eye.

It is then that Frieren realizes for the first time:

I should have tried to know them better.
I should have listened to them more.

This regret resonated with me as a nursing student.

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The "weight of time" felt during nursing clinicals

When you go to clinicals, the time you can spend with patients is very limited.
・Vital signs measurement
・Bed baths
・Medication administration
・Documentation
・Reporting

When you are chased by tasks, you lose the leeway to think about,
"What kind of life has this person lived?"
But watching Frieren, I thought this:



The time I can spend with them now will never return.For the patient,

and for myself.
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What was more important than "magic"

Frieren is a powerful mage.
But what is valued most in the story is not magic, but:

・The time spent eating together
・Casual conversations
・Small memories
I thought this was the same as nursing.

Knowledge and skills are, of course, important.

But what is even more important is,


・Looking them in the eye when speaking・Listening to what the other person has to say
・Trying to know the person
I felt that these things might be what matter most.

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Why I am posting on note

The reason I started note is simple.

Because I want toleave my current experiences for someone in the future.

Things I felt as a nursing student
Tough clinicals
Days that didn't go well
Days I grew a little

These will be forgotten as time passes.

But like Frieren,

I don't want to regret,
"I should have recorded more"

"I should have left more behind."

That is why I am writing it down like this.
I am still inexperienced, but...

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Why I want nursing students specifically to watch Frieren

This work is a fantasy, but I think its essence is a story about facing people.

Nurses are the same.

It is a job that looks not just at the illness,

but at the person's life.
Just as Frieren learned,
trying to know a person,

cherishing the present,

isn't that the starting point of nursing?
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Finally

If there is a nursing student out there right now who feels:

・Clinicals are tough
・I have no confidence
・I don't know if this is the right path for me

I want you to watch "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End" once.
I believe it is a work that will surely remind you of



"why you aimed to become a nurse".

And I want to continue being a nursing student who cherishes the time with each individual,

just as I learned from Frieren.
This note is one step toward that.