I was mentally in the pits at around the time I watched Spirited Away for the first time. The scene of the first evening (where the spirits appeared for the first time) lit up something in me. Maybe I could call it “childlike wonder”. I was also very happy for the greater part of the year following that, making me think that the movie had some contribution to it. It could be because it was a period where I could look at the smaller and more mundane things and life and find something positive out of it.