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I'm never going to be good enough.
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I'll never live up to their expectations.
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Who am I?
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And why does anything I do even matter?
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I should just give up.
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You know, honestly, if you've been alive long enough,
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you've asked yourself one, if not several
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of these questions before,
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because what people don't really tell you
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is that being yourself can be considered
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the hardest job ever, you know, depending on who you ask.
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And if you ask this character for this episode,
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he say that it's close to impossible to just be himself.
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And of course, the character I'm talking about
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is the star of ReZero, Subaru, Naski.
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["Ring of the Bells"]
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Hey, what's going on guys?
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My name is Nate, and you're listening
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to the Otaku Liberation,
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the show where we help you break free from the chains
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that are holding you back in your life
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by connecting some biblical principles
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with things from your favorite anime.
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And without further ado, let's get into it.
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So the first one I want to go over today
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in regards to Subaru and his kind of journey
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of self-discovery, right, is Romans chapter 14, verse eight.
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It says, if we live, we live for the Lord,
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and if we die, we die for the Lord.
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Therefore, whether we live or die,
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we belong to the Lord.
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And what I want to kind of break down
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and kind of dissect from the verse
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in how it applies to Subaru and ourselves
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is that one, knowing we are God's is paramount.
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And in knowing that, you know who you are as well, right?
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You know that you were created for a purpose,
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you're here for a purpose,
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and you're still here for a purpose, right?
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And the fact that you wake up each and every day
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means your role isn't over yet.
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You're not done.
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And I don't know about you, that feels good to me,
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knowing that I get to wake up another day, right?
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And for now, for Subaru to discover that,
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because he doesn't just know that innately, right?
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None of us do.
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We don't know that even if we're told,
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we have to eventually believe it,
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even once we see it for ourselves.
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And for Subaru, from the longest time,
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he was, honestly just grew up in his dad's shadow.
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And from what we understand, his dad was super likable,
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kind of a every man, so to speak, right?
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You know, athletic, super smart,
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he helped out around the town that Subaru grew up in.
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So everyone knew him, everyone loves him, and all of that.
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And because of that, every time they saw Subaru,
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it was always, oh, you're so-so son, right?
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Forgive me, his Subaru dad's name escapes me right now,
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but essentially they never saw Subaru, not Skidish,
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they saw him as his dad's son.
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And that kind of developed a sort of inferiority complex
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to him.
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Now, for those of you who have older siblings,
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or even in this same scenario, have parents who,
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maybe you grew up in the same town that they grew up in,
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and everyone just loves them to death.
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They're super awesome.
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They're just best names to slice bread.
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And you come up behind them, and all they see is,
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basically you being that person's younger sibling, child,
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whatever the case may be,
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instead of seeing you as your own person, right?
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So that can develop a lot of different things.
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You can be resentment towards the person
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you're being compared to, because, you know,
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how dare they be this good, or this great,
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or whatever the case may be.
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And now no one sees me for me.
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And what ultimately ends up happening for a lot of the time
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is what Subaru ends up doing is,
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you become so desperate for attention,
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attention for who you are and not who you're related to,
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who you're being compared to, right?
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To get people to understand you're not that person,
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you're your own person.
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And, like I said, in Subaru's case,
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he tried to become essentially the class clown.
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Always, he never took anything serious,
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or he never took a serious situation serious,
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a lot of seriousness.
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But no matter what would happen,
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he'd always try to crack a joke and make people laugh,
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just do outrageous things,
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just to get that type of attention and validation.
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And so for me, in my own personal life,
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it's a similar situation,
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but not the exact same, for the same reasons.
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The other guy with episode,
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well I know I talked about before,
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how for the longest time, I felt like I had to be perfect,
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and I had to just be perfect at every single thing that I do,
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no matter what it was, school, sports, work,
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any extra side thing I decided to do,
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I felt like I had to be perfect and the best at.
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Otherwise, I felt like I was letting everyone down.
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And part of that, the reason is because,
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again, I have an older sibling who wasn't,
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she wasn't just the best thing since I was bred,
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she's more along the other side,
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on the opposite way.
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Now, again, this was just in the past, she's grown up,
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she's 10 times better than what it was.
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But at that time, she wasn't, right?
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And there's a lot of personal baggage there,
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let me just put it that way.
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And for me, being the younger sibling,
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coming up and seeing all of that,
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seeing how it affected my parents,
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how it affected my relationship with her,
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how it affected her relationship with everybody,
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you know, seeing it at a young age,
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it made me decide to try to never be like that,
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and to do everything in my power
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to not come out of that way,
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to not put my parents through that, to not just,
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when people say my name, not to have that type of look,
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not to have that type of, here you go, you know what I'm saying?
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And it wasn't too like recently,
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maybe last two, three years,
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where I finally came to terms with that,
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because for the longest time,
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for me, it wasn't so much a desperate for attention
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type thing, it was just I was carrying around this burden
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that I didn't need to carry, right?
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And this is the burden I gave myself.
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And again, the cause of that,
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I mean, the cause, the result of that was,
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you know, just a lot of just anger and pent up frustration
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just throughout my life.
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Again, until two, maybe three years ago,
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when I came to the realization
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that's where it was coming from,
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because for the longest time,
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I didn't know where it was coming from.
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I didn't realize that that was doing something
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to my mental state, my emotions and things like that.
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But when I got older and started doing the self work,
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started reflecting and just really trying to get
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to the root of why am I so angry all the time?
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And lo and behold, that's what it was.
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Now, in Subaru's case, again,
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it wasn't so much an anger type thing.
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It was just he was desperate to have people see him for him
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and not to not see his father.
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But that backfired, and all his horse playing
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and things like that, he ended up pushing people away.
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People never got to know who he was
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and he never knew how to build genuine relationships
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like the ones that are, you know,
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the true ride or die is, right?
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Because yeah, we've all had that one person.
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You may be that one person who is the class clown,
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who's always joking, who can never take anything serious
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and no one can ever take that person serious, right?
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So that was Subaru.
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That was Subaru.
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He was that person you can never take serious,
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so no one ever did.
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And again, that caused him to not really understand
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what true companionship, true friendship
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and stuff like that was until he ended up in Laguna Gah,
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in the place where 3-0 takes place.
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And through all of this,
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it's caused a serious case of self-loathing.
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He feels that no matter what he does,
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he's never good enough.
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Again, back to the whole being compared to other people,
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right?
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It doesn't have to be family.
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It doesn't, yeah, I know it hits a home for a lot of people
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because it typically is your family
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as you're being compared to, for better or for worse.
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But any comparison to your peers at school, right?
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You may not be the top of the class,
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maybe you're just kind of mid-level in the,
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you know, you're just average, right?
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Which is okay.
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I mean, again, they,
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B's and C's go past classes, right?
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But that doesn't mean you don't try your best
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and try to go for the A's.
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But it's just the, when you compare your,
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either way you compare yourself to somebody else
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or somebody else is comparing you to another person,
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it creates this type of pressure, right?
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Like I said earlier, in my case, right?
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It raises pressure and just baggage of something
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that you don't have to carry, right?
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Because you're unique, you're uniquely made,
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you're made with love and there's never gonna be
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anyone else like you ever again, right?
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You're one of a kind.
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And trying to compare yourself to somebody else
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or being compared to somebody else just diminishes that.
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It diminishes the greatness of your uniqueness, right?
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I mean, I want everyone to embrace who they are
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and embrace what makes us unique, what makes us different,
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what makes us strong, what makes us weak, right?
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And again, like I said earlier,
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I know being yourself is the hardest job
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that we, any of us can do.
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Because in the society where,
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because in order to live in a society and a community,
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we have to conform to understand, right?
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I mean, there's rules for a reason, right?
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We have to, you know, we have to follow the guidelines.
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But again, where does that stop, right?
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When does that, where does, you know, you begin, right?
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I know some people, they take everything just seriously.
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Like their personality is whatever society says, right?
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And that's not, I mean, that's not true.
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You weren't always like that, right?
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You look at a bunch of little kids, you just believe
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they don't care about what any of the rules are, right?
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They don't care about, you know,
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if you're big, tall, you know, skinny, short,
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and they don't care, they just don't.
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You're gonna get talked about just the same
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and you're gonna have fun with them just the same too.
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You know, it's just the beauty of being a child, right?
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You're not exposed to all the craziness
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that as an adult or as a teenager,
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as you know, young adult, older, stuff like that,
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they're not exposed to that type of thing,
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which as it should be.
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So I think the beginning of us finding who we are
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and really embracing who we are,
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just is going back to that time,
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going back to when we were kids
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and we were just playing on the playground,
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playing in the yard and things like that.
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And really just exploring, right?
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Explore who you are, who you are,
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by looking at who you were, right?
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You know, could do their self-reflection
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because I know a lot of these episodes,
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a lot of the things I go over is about self-reflection,
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but it doesn't always have to be the negative side, right?
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You know, the causes of, you know,
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the traumas that you might experience in your life.
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And just go back to the beautiful times too,
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the joyous times, the things that really get you going,
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the things that at one point in time,
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it's the only thing you can think about
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when you got up in the morning
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to when you went to bed at night, right?
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And, or the next morning, you know,
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I'm looking at you gamers.
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But go back to that time,
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go back to when, you know,
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we were living life and not just living through it.
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And I do think that as we get older,
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as we start getting kind of, you know,
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bogged down with, you know,
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the pressures of being a functioning,
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contributing citizen in society,
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that we forget what it means to actually live
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and to actually enjoy our lives
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instead of just going through it,
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trying to survive it, right?
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Because there is a difference between trying to survive
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and trying in living.
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And, you know, I just don't want us to get lost in that,
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right?
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So whatever that means to you,
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whatever that speaks to you,
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I'm hoping to raise a name for somebody.
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Because honestly, that's been my quest
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in my young life so far is just to live
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and not just survive.
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And that's kind of the real kind of big point
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I kind of want to drive home.
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And, you know, honestly, it's,
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again, all this is easier said than done, right?
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Nothing in life is free and nothing good
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is ever going to come without a little hard work, right?
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Sometimes a lot of hard work.
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So let me go back to Subaru.
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So in Subaru's case, you know, he's been self-loathing,
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he's been living in his ass shadow,
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doing everything he can to stand out,
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even if it's not good stuff, right?
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And again, like I said, all that really doesn't change
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until he goes to, or he is brought to Lugunica,
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which again is the town or main city of Re Zero.
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It's where most of the stuff takes place.
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And the people in Lugunica accept him for him, right?
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They accept Subaru for Subaru because guess what?
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They don't know his dad.
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They don't even know who he is, right?
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Until he shows up just randomly on one day.
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And it's because they only see him.
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He gets to be himself in full totality,
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all the weak sorryness that he displays at times
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to the brave, courageous courage that he displays
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when the going gets tough.
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And just to blame the honesty that he provides him, right?
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I mean, Subaru, he just like, look,
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he's a very objective outlook on life
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and honestly, I can respect it.
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And for, but there's two, yeah, yeah, I can say, yeah,
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two main characters on there who just happen to be
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the two main love interests for him are Rem and Amelia
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who truly see him for him.
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They allow him to open his eyes to who he was, right?
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To realize that he's Subaru Natsuki.
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He's not his dad.
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He's not just his dad's kid, right?
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He's his own person.
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And for him, he didn't really realize that
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until he got there, until they blatantly just told him,
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you know, they fell in love with him because he's him.
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He's Subaru.
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No one else, they're not comparing to anybody else.
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He's not, you know, whatever the case,
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whatever you want to say, but he's just Subaru.
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And I want to just bring that up and say,
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who do we have to pull us out of our hole, right?
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When we get into the hole of self-loathing,
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when we get in our own heads and our own space
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and just start really tearing ourselves down or start,
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when we start comparing ourselves to other people,
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who do we have, who do you have that can, you know,
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knock some sense into you, give you a couple of slaps
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and then hug you and say, you know what?
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Nope, I just love you for you.
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I don't want you to be you.
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I don't want you to be anybody else.
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And, you know, just give you, honestly,
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that boost that you need, right?
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Because we all need it, right?
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Even the biggest, toughest, strongest person,
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whether physically or mentally,
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they need a break.
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They need help.
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You know, we all need help.
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They didn't get there just because of their own strength.
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Somebody helped them along the way,
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whether directly or not.
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And it's important to have those type of people
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close to you, you know, not just for in times of need,
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when your need is on the line,
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but really those are just genuine people
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who are going to make your life better, right?
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I mean, like I always say, life is hard.
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Going through it is tough, it's difficult.
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We got to learn how to navigate it.
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You know, our parents, if you're blessed enough
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to have your parents in your life
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who guide you and show you to their best of their ability,
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because one, they're not perfect.
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Two, the world has changed since they were kids, right?
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Not everything's the same.
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So, but they're doing their best.
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And then after a while,
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you have to figure it out for yourself, right?
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Take what you've learned and then move forward
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and then you adapt to what the world is.
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And then once you get out there,
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that's where, you know, the community and village mindset
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comes into play for reals when you have other
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like-minded people who just come together
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and, you know, just look out for each other, you know?
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Flaws and all, they just see you for you.
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And that's why I want you guys to really,
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if you don't have that person, be that person first,
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and then they'll come to you.
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I truly believe that you are what you attract, right?
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If you attract, if you find yourself surrounded
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by negative people all the time, then the problem
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might be you, in all honesty.
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Maybe try to work on your own outlook
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and find things that just bring joy and positivity
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into your life, then naturally those people
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are gonna start coming to you too.
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So, like I said, again, to create who we want to be,
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we must first face who we used to be
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and accept who we are.
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So, again, I'm not saying to ignore all the bad
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so that's happened.
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I'm not saying to only focus on all the bad.
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I'm not saying to focus on all the things
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that we wish we hadn't done,
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things that may have been done to us.
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I'm not saying don't forget it.
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I'm saying to forgive it and let it be in the past, right?
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Because, again, like I always say,
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I sound like a broken record on these episodes sometimes,
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but just if you look in the past,
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you're gonna stay in the past, right?
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If you look too far into the future and start idolizing it,
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you're never gonna be in the present.
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You're never in the past, plan your present,
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and then move towards your future.
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That's pretty much it.
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And then again, it all starts with you.
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It starts with us.
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It starts internally.
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We have to put in the work to reap the rewards.
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And for Subaru, he didn't really quite get that
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because, again, his power in Re Zero
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is what he calls return by death.
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And it does exactly what it sounds like.
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When he dies, he returns to a previous save point
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that he doesn't choose now.
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It's random.
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It's randomly set at whatever interval it's set at.
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And then he basically gets a redo,
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he gets a do-over from that point on.
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And it was given to him by the Witch of Envy,
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which we still don't know why she gave it to him
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because she's infatuated with Subaru for some reason,
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but she gave it to him as to keep him safe, right?
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If he ends up dead for whatever reason,
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she can just redo it so he's living.
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But for instance, in Subaru's case,
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he uses it to avoid disasters coming his way
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and not just for his own sake,
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but for the sake of the people around him,
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which is very noble.
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But the issue is that even though he has future knowledge,
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he rarely uses it the first time around,
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like even so they, excluding the first couple of loops
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when he realized he had this power, right?
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Again, you die and next thing you know,
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you wake up like a day or a couple of hours before
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you're not knowing what happened, right?
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I get that.
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But as the series goes on,
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even when he first starts looping in a new loop,
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he never really takes the knowledge
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of what he had going into the next loop.
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He just still kind of flies by the seat of his pants.
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And as a sidebar, as a viewer, it kind of annoys me,
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but it's part of his charm, I guess.
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But for our sakes, right, it just goes to show you
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even if you could change that moment in time,
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if you really could go back in the past
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and make a different decision,
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you know, the end result very well
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still might be the same thing, right?
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Because there's no guarantee that if we change
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something about our past, something that we didn't like,
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that we would rather not have happen,
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it doesn't mean that the outcome
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is gonna be any different.
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It could be or it could not be.
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I mean, I guess that's the beauty of the unknown, right?
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Because we don't know anything,
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only God knows everything, right?
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We just gotta move forward, we just gotta keep going.
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And honestly, the biggest kind of takeaway
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I wanna take from this, because in Tsuru's case,
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even though he knows pretty much what's going to happen,
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he still lets his emotions get the best of him.
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And it causes him to make some rash decisions,
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which ends up with him dying again,
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until he finally gets to write five or six loops
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down the road.
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But it just really goes to show that if we don't learn
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from our experience and learn from our mistakes,
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then we're gonna be doomed to repeat them, right?
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We've all heard the cliche saying,
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I know, I hear your boos, but there's some truth to it,
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right, there's some truth.
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If we don't learn, we're gonna do the same thing
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over and over and over and over again.
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It's kind of funny, because in my house,
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we have a saying for people like that,
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we call them habituals.
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Like again, you're being habitual,
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means you're doing the same thing over and over again
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in getting the same result,
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but you're still gonna try to do it anyway.
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And it's always funny.
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And because if we say to our dog about our dog,
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meaning again, it's his instinct,
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even though he gets the same discipline,
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every time he does something he's not supposed to,
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he's still gonna do it anyway.
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And a lot of us go through life like that, right?
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Just being habitual.
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A lot of us just go through life,
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even though it isn't a workout for me the last 1500 times,
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I'm still gonna do the same, the exact same thing
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and this time, this 1500th in one time
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is gonna be the different one.
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No, no, that's not the case.
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That's not the case, man.
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If you're doing the exact same thing over and over again,
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expecting a different result, then you're insane.
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And so instead of doing the same thing over and over again,
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why not just tweak it a little bit?
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Why not try to improve upon it?
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Whatever it is, whether it's a skill, task, relationships,
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going to the gym, trying to look for a job,
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whatever it is, whatever it is, you know what it is,
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I don't know, but whatever it is
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that you're trying to improve upon,
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whatever it is that, or whatever opportunity
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that you're trying to seek,
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instead of looking to change opportunities in the past,
515
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learn from those so you can create your own in the future.
516
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Or better yet, just be ready
517
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when those opportunities do come in the future
518
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so that way you have the knowledge
519
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for how it turned out the first time
520
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going into the second time.
521
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So yeah, that's pretty much it.
522
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So that's all I got for you guys today.
523
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Just wanna thank you for tuning in to today's episode
524
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and I pray that you got what you needed out of it
525
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and that you learned something new about yourself.
526
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And I mean, at this point,
527
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you would think you know everything about yourself,
528
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but you don't, trust me, you don't.
529
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Feel free to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review.
530
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I would love reading you guys' comments
531
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and it helps me improve each and every episode.
532
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And always remember, you are the main character
533
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of your story and that story doesn't end until he says so.
534
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All right, be blessed.
535
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And I'll see you guys next time.
