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It's easy to fall into the trap of envy and jealousy.
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Do you know why?
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It's because we are always focused on what we don't have.
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So much so that we miss the blessings that we have right in front of us.
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And I believe this happens because it's easier to see what other people have as it is clear
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as day.
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But when it comes to our own gifts and treasures, it takes an outside perspective to shed some
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light on it.
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And on today's episode, we're looking at a character who covets the very thing that brings
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his brother so much pain and he fails to see the value in his own talents.
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I'm talking about Mob's younger brother Ritsu Kageyama.
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Hey, what's going on guys?
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My name is Nate.
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You're listening to the Otaku Liberation.
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A show where we help you break the chains that are holding you back in your life by
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connecting some biblical principles with themes from your favorite anime.
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And without further ado, let's get right on into it.
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And today I'm going to jump right into the verse or verses today because it really paints
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the picture as a whole of basically Ritsu's whole character arc.
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And the verses are going to be Galatians chapter six, verses four through five.
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And it says, but each person should examine his own work and then he will have a reason
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for boasting in himself alone and not in respect to someone else for each person will have
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to carry his own load.
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And essentially what that means is mind your business is basically take stock of what you
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have and don't worry about what other people have and what they're doing with what they
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have and all these other things.
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And I think that this is a lesson that's so, so needed in today's world because in the
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way social media is right now, it's easily accessible to see someone else's life or their
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highlights of their life as I say on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, threads, Twitter, all the
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Snapchat, all the different things.
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It's easy to see the high points of someone's life.
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And when it's all you see, it's easy to believe that that's what their life looks like.
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But you know, and I know life is never just the highlights, right?
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Is never the high moments.
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Those are just the moments we choose to share.
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And it just creates this facade of, you know, look at me, look at what I have, look at what
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I've worked for or I've accomplished, but don't look at all the battle scars, all the
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blood, sweat and tears that I had to put in, in order to get to this point.
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And that is essentially how Ritsu sees the psychic powers that mob has.
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So the first point I want to go over for Ritsu is his sense of jealousy.
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Ritsu has always been jealous of mob psychic powers, which I mean, let's be honest, who
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wouldn't be if your sibling has psychic powers or have any type of power or talent or something
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that you admire, right?
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But you don't have that same talent.
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You don't have that particular thing.
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And yeah, you probably would feel a little bit jealous, right?
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Which is fine.
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Again, I'm not saying this is a bad thing to feel this way, but it's a bad thing to
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let it consume you the way it consumed Ritsu.
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And the ironic thing is that Ritsu was jealous of mob psychic powers, but mob was jealous
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of pretty much everything else Ritsu had, which is the good grades, the charisma, the
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athleticism, all the things that mob coveted Ritsu had.
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And Ritsu coveted the one thing he didn't have over mob, which was psychic powers.
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Though I love how the author showed that kind of parallel between the two brothers.
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And this sense of jealousy led Ritsu to feeling inferior to mob and having a distorted perception
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of his own self-worth.
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And what I mean by that is Ritsu felt like he was less than his brother because he didn't
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have psychic powers like him.
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And that caused him to not see the beauty in the good that he already has, right?
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All the things that mob coveted, all the things that I'm sure a lot of people will covet,
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the good charisma.
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I struggle talking to people a lot of the time.
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Once I know you personally, then I'm more like I will to get tongue tied and stutter
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more and all these different things until I get comfortable with you.
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And all my other introverts, people who don't really like to interact with people, you know
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what I'm saying.
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You get me.
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I see you.
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And for those who don't understand that, just know, yes, this is a real thing.
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There are people out here who don't just enjoy normal day to day conversation as much as
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you do.
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And it's okay.
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We still love you.
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But anyway, and it's so it's easy to it's easy to undermine our own gifts and talents
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when we're too busy focusing on somebody else's is essential.
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What this whole thing is.
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So one of the questions I want to pose to you is, do you take your value from other
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people, whether that's somebody speaking directly to your value, you know, the standard lifting
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you up or the tearing you down?
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Or is it by you people watching you seeing what you believe to be something that you
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want, something of a value in somebody else's life and that you trying to live up to that
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standard even though you haven't been called to that standard yet?
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And God may have something even better for you, but you're so focused on what they have
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that you're not even listening to what he's promised.
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It's a really thing about it.
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And Ritsu, honestly, he convinced himself that his twisted sense of jealousy was admiration
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for his brother and his abilities.
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But in reality, it was just jealousy and fear because again, like I mentioned on the previous
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episode, there was an accident when mob and Ritsu were younger, when mob powers went out
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of control and he seriously injured Ritsu and the bullies that were bullying now.
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And at that moment Ritsu began to fear his brother, understandably so, but it was the
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type of fear that it distorted their relationship because Ritsu was afraid for his life, really,
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and he was afraid that if he angered mob in any sort of way, then mob would use his powers
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to hurt him.
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So he felt like he couldn't have the normal sibling relationship.
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Anyone who has siblings understands that you guys can be the best of friends and the worst
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of enemies all within a span of five minutes.
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It's one of those type of dynamics.
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And Ritsu couldn't have that with mob because he was so afraid that mob would lose control
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like he did that one day and just end the world essentially.
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And so that coupled with the jealousy of not having the psychic powers like mob did, it
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just created this weird sense of self for Ritsu and his weird obsession over mob and
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his powers.
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So the next question I want to ask you, you didn't know you were taking a test today,
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did you?
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But the next question is who are you envying?
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Who or what are you envying?
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Because this is why this is going to be so dangerous to look at someone someone else
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have.
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Because on one hand, admiration is great.
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It can be used as a motivator to make you work harder, to strive for that level of success
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in your own life.
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But it's a fine line between admiration and obsession or even envy, because you can go
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from the point of using that person or that whatever that shiny object has fuel to just
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being that is the goal.
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That is the end all be all and then you lose sight of everything else.
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And one thing that you probably don't realize as much as we should is what you may believe
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to be a blessing to one person and something to covet.
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It may turn out to be their curse instead.
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And that played out exactly how now it is for mobbing Ritsu.
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Ritsu sees mob powers as a blessing and as something to covet something to pine after,
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whereas mob sees them as a burden and as a curse because they can be used to hurt people
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if not used correctly.
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And that's a lot of weight and pressure on mob's mind that Ritsu doesn't see, nothing
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that no one else really sees outside of the people who spend the most time with the mob,
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meaning like Reagan, Dimple and eventually Ritsu.
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But in this moment of time, all Ritsu sees is the shiny object, the powers and what they
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could possibly hold.
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So I just want you all to just cherish and honor your own talents because just as you
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are coveting somebody else's gifts, somebody else can be doing the same thing for you.
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And you're neglecting your talents that somebody else wants.
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And it's a vicious cycle over and over and over again.
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But again, this whole season is about self-awareness and just being aware of who you are, whose
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you are, what you have and being able to use it to the best of your ability.
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So that was the first point, jealousy.
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The next point for Ritsu is his man became very power hungry.
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So eventually in the story, Ritsu does obtain his own psychic powers.
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Maybe they manifest and he's able to do more or less the same things mob is able to do
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on a smaller scale.
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But once Ritsu powers come, he becomes hungry for even more.
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Even more so that he allows Dimple, the evil spirit that mob defeated early on in the first
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season and he just let hang around him for some reason.
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Ritsu allows Dimple to possess his own body in order to improve his control over his powers.
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And the reason that's so significant is because Ritsu was so enthralled.
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He was so engulfed in having psychic powers and having the abilities now and not just
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having the abilities, but wanting to be better than his brother that he didn't even think
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to go to mob with this to ask for advice or opinion.
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Because he, my mob had his power since he was born and Ritsu just got him like now.
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And you would think he would go to the person who has the experience, who he knows would
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be more than willing to help him.
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But since again, that whole distorted relationship or this distorted viewpoint that Ritsu has
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about the relationship causes him to go the opposite way and allow this random ghost that
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he just now met because before Ritsu couldn't see Dimple because he didn't have any psychic
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abilities.
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He couldn't see him who this spirit who he just met possess his body just so he can have
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better control over his own powers.
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And again, this can ultimately just devalues the gifts he already has because he's so focused
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on the one thing that he doesn't have.
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He's completely undermining everything else that he has going for him.
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And this attitude just drove him to try and forsake his relationship with mob, even going
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so far as to state that he doesn't care about mob, that he doesn't care about his own big
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brother.
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And this during this whole gets me like mini arc within the series of Ritsu gaining his
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powers and basically becoming drunk off his own powers essentially.
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I mean, his whole personality shifts.
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He becomes more cold and ruthless doing things that he wouldn't he wouldn't have done before.
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And that leads me to ask, you know, what is it that you've assessed over so much that
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you suddenly just stop recognizing yourself?
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I mean, this kind of calls back to one of my earlier episodes about Roswald from Re
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Zero, where he was so obsessed about, you know, meeting the witch of greed that he was
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willing to betray the very people who's helped him for centuries at this point.
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I mean, he was able to betray the very people who looked up to him, who loved him, who want
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to do things for him.
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But he was so obsessed that he basically changed.
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He did a heel turn and just became this this man just bent on getting what he wanted.
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And it's the same thing with Ritsu.
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He became just this just cold, ruthless type of person who he's never been like that before
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a day in his life.
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But just the power and then the just the idea of being better than his brother caused him
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to to try to go through this change.
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And as you say, if you're not careful, if you're not careful, the pursuit of ultimately
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the pursuit of something that isn't meant for you in the first place, it's always going
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to end in ruin, whether your own or your own and somebody and those around you, too.
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But even if it's something good that you think is good, I mean, I even be a bad thing if
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you focus too too too much on it and become obsessed about it to the point that it's changing
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who you are.
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Then I think it's time to take a step back and really and really evaluate.
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Is that even worth it at that point?
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Because if it's changing your entire personality, who you are, I'm not saying we're going to
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stay the same forever because again, we're all we're all growing.
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We are going through different seasons in our life.
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You know, and you're not just not going to be the same person you are today that you
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were five years ago.
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And I understand that.
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But what I'm saying is, is if the goal you're going after, the thing you're pursuing causes
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you to do a complete personality shift, like you were a completely different person, then
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I say it's time to take it back, take it back a few steps and really, really sit down and
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take a look at yourself and see if this is really the way you want to go.
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So again, that's what being power hungry and obsessed does to Ritsu.
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But all hope is in loss.
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The third point is essentially the restoration of who Ritsu was, his relationship with Mob,
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the whole, you know, the whole happy ending that we that we all love to see in these series.
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Right.
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And so, so essentially his attitude towards Mob changes after Rob comes to rescue Ritsu,
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after Ritsu has been captured by by Klaw, this evil psychic organization that are kidnapping
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psychic people, psychic kids in order to turn them into soldiers.
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So one of the members came and kidnapped Ritsu.
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So Mob had to go save him.
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And keep in mind, this is right after Ritsu just said he doesn't care about Mob and even
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tried to fight him or tried to provoke Mob into a fight, I should say.
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And again, back to you know, back to Mob's episode, Mob has such a forgiving heart that
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he just he was like, no, you don't really mean that.
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It's like, you know, even if you did, I don't care.
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You're still my little brother and I'm still going to love you no matter what.
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Which again, I think is how we all should be, you know, with family, with people who
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care about in general.
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Don't we shouldn't hold their mistakes over them.
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We should just still see them for who they are.
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And Mob, Mob knew that the Ritsu that he was seeing at that moment in time is not the same
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Ritsu that he's known.
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And this is essentially just a phase.
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And and it's because of that, because of Mob's willingness to forgive and Ritsu's willingness
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to accept himself and Mob's relationship for what it is, was able to basically change the
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whole dynamic around and back to the way it was and into a healthier way to because Mob
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admits to Ritsu that there is no one else in the world who Mob admires more than his
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brother.
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Because to me, at this point, again, the relationship was strange, but kind of weird.
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They didn't really connect that well even before all of this.
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But for Mob to just straight up admit to Ritsu that Mob being the older one looks up to his
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little brother more than anyone else in the world.
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It just did something to Ritsu.
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It helped him understand that he has qualities that Mob envies in that just having psychic
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powers or just having a gift or talent isn't everything.
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It's not the end of the world.
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It's not the bee's knees, whatever weird saying you want to put here.
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It's not all that defines us.
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Just like how I said in the Mob's episode and back to this whole theme of just being
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aware of what you have outside of just your talents and your gifts.
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And not being so focused on the things that you don't have, the things that other people
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have, the blessings that they have in their own life.
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That's cool.
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I mean, you can strive to achieve something of that similar level, but don't become so
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obsessed with that particular blessing because it's not for you.
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It's for them.
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It's for them.
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And another key part is you don't know the season that preceded that because every blessing
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has a season of trial and stress right before it.
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All of them.
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Like you're going to go through something, right?
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And it may be like the sky is falling type thing, or you might have stubbed your toe
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last week.
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You know, having two very extreme differences.
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But the key point is the same, that we all go through a season that's going to prepare
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us for the blessing.
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So when you see these people on Instagram, these people on TikTok, on YouTube, Snapchat,
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living it up, living the life, living the thing that you want, or they have the things
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that you want, just understand they had to go through some type of trial, some type of
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effort.
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They had to put in the work.
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They had to be strengthened.
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They had to be just prepared for the blessing that they're enjoying now.
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So you're seeing the highlights, but you don't see everything else that went into the highlights.
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So that's why I really want you to focus on your own journey, your own season that you're
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in right now.
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Because maybe you are in a season of just of the trial, of the preparation, of just
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being made ready for your eventual blessing.
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Because again, I know this, most believers know this.
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And if anyone out there listening who isn't a believer, just know that when God makes
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a promise, he always delivers.
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That's it.
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He's always going to deliver and it's going to be in his timing.
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So it may not be at the time that we want or in the exact way that we want, or even
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what we even asked for in the first place.
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It may be something better.
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And just know that he's always going to deliver.
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So I just want to leave you guys with this.
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Don't get so caught up in someone else's story that you forget to write your own.
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Because I always say at the end of every single podcast, you are the main character of your
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story.
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And I mean that, I truly mean that.
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And the reason why I made that my tagline or whatever you want to call it is because
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it's something that needs to be said, something that needs to be reminded that your life here
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is a story.
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The guy's written, he's authored, and he's given us the ability to choose the chapters
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essentially.
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And I don't want you to spend time in your own story reading somebody else's when you
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can be writing your own.
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So I really take that to heart.
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Because it's easier said than done, but it's also more fulfilling than just people watching.
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Trust me.
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So in summary, Ritsu's journey, his own journey of self-awareness, it shows us how he confronts
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his jealousy, his power hunger tendencies, and ultimately finds the restoration and the
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progress that he needs through essentially realizing his own value and understanding that
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pining after somebody else's gift shouldn't devalue your own.
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And that again, we aren't the talents, we aren't the highlights, we are everything in
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between the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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So just keep that in mind.
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And hey, at the end of the day, we're all just human.
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We all have something to strive for, something that we are striving for.
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Just don't let it consume you.
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Don't let it be the end all be all.
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So just want to thank you guys for tuning into today's episode.
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And I pray that you got what you needed out of it, and hopefully you learned something
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new about yourself.
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And if you like what you heard on today's episode and want to take a deeper look, head
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on over to the otakulliberation.net where you'll find a blog article that covers today's
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episode in even more detail.
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And come back next week because we're going to look at someone who isn't exactly what
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he seems, but he tends to mean well in the end.
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And that is Mob's boss and mentor, Reigen Arataka.
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And always remember guys, you are the main character of your story, and that story doesn't
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end until he says so.
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Alright, be blessed.
