What happened in the final episode of the Evangelion TV series, titled "Take care of yourself"?


What actually happened in the last episode of the _Neon Genesis Evangelion_ TV
series? It is episode 26, entitled ["Take care of
yourself"](http://evangelion.wikia.com/wiki/Episode:26)?

I have read different wikis about the plot of the episode, but I still don't
understand it.




It's a little disguised, but the overall meaning is not too complicated.

> Thought the whole series, Shinji was struggling, because he has made a shell
> to cover himself, not to expose his feelings and fears. Shinji had (as we
> all do, probably) a lot of things that were bothering him inside: the
> relationship with his father, the desire to find a place in this world, and
> so on and so forth, questions like "who am I?", "what am I supposed to be?",
> "what do I want to become?", "how other people see me?". Finally, Shinji
> views the world, and himself, in thge comedic high school setting with other
> characters talking to him, trying to help him answer all those questions.
> It's something like a visit to a psychotherapist, where the role of the
> psychotherapist is taken by all the people he knew. Finally, they help him
> to destroy his shell. He realizes his self-worth. He realizes that he _can_
> live the life without Eva, and make it worth living. He manages to acquire
> the will to live, which he was lacking before.




It's a little disguised, but the overall meaning is not too complicated.

> Thought the whole series, Shinji was struggling, because he has made a shell
> to cover himself, not to expose his feelings and fears. Shinji had (as we
> all do, probably) a lot of things that were bothering him inside: the
> relationship with his father, the desire to find a place in this world, and
> so on and so forth, questions like "who am I?", "what am I supposed to be?",
> "what do I want to become?", "how other people see me?". Finally, Shinji
> views the world, and himself, in thge comedic high school setting with other
> characters talking to him, trying to help him answer all those questions.
> It's something like a visit to a psychotherapist, where the role of the
> psychotherapist is taken by all the people he knew. Finally, they help him
> to destroy his shell. He realizes his self-worth. He realizes that he _can_
> live the life without Eva, and make it worth living. He manages to acquire
> the will to live, which he was lacking before.

