Zima Blue: The color of yourself

 "You always go back to the old places where you loved life"

-Mercedes Sosa

(Spoilers)

        I've been meditating for a year. I started doing it hoping to find a cure for my anxieties, but to no avail. Only from the day that my mom kissed me on the forehead while I was having my daily session, did I begin to achieve true inner calm, and a clarity that dispelled all fear.

I am sure that that same epiphany was the one that Zima Blue, the protagonist of the homonymous episode of the Love, Death and Robots series, had when he dismantled himself on the pool of her former creator and returned to be the simple machine designed to clean it: it's the simple, the simply beautiful, that gives life meaning.

Much like me searching for an answer to my fears, Zima insisted on making his existence meaningful, although he went to the depths of the universe to find it. But the answer, long before he knew it, was within him (and is within us) from the beginning.

This is where Robert Valley's design and direction shines through in the chapter, anticipating the truth long before it appears: Zima Blue took on a human form that shares her "mother's" race, and when she died, the red cape that the funeral attendants wore is the same one that Zima wears in his public presentations.

Be it the blue of the tiles of a swimming pool or the kiss of a mother, the simple key to self-fulfillment lives in ourselves, which is unique and personal. “I don't know if the blue in his name was more like the sky or the sea; none, really." Zima Blue invites the public to rediscover their own shade of blue by giving them a first clue: it's in the places, and in the people, that gave you happiness.