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So when you hear the word regret,
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what's the first thing that comes to your mind?
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What do you wish you had never done or never said?
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But more importantly,
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how long are you gonna punish yourself for your mistakes?
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You know, it's easy to put ourselves down
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and to think that we are the worst of the worst.
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But in reality, we're all flawed, but we're also loved.
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And for this season finale,
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we're gonna look at a character who had to learn
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how to change her self view
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and to accept the fact that she is loved
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despite her mistakes.
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And I'm talking about the blue hair demon made herself, Rem.
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Hey, what's going on guys?
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My name is Nate and you're listening to the Otaku Liberation,
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a show where we help you break the chains
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that are holding you back in your life
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by connecting some biblical principles with the Bible.
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The Blue Hair Demon Made Herself Rem.
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And we're gonna talk about the
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The Blue Hair Demon Made Herself Rem.
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And we're gonna talk about the
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The Blue Hair Demon Made Herself Rem.
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By connecting some biblical principles with themes
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from your favorite anime.
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And without further ado, let's get into it.
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So again, this episode really going over
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the idea of regrets, right?
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Because I mean, this whole season,
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this whole season covering ReZero
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has been about facing your past, accepting your past
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and doing what you can to move forward
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and move beyond your mistakes, right?
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And we've seen that similar theme
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throughout each of the characters, right?
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All of it about how they had to face their own past,
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but in different aspects and in different ways.
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And in Rem's case, it's about, you know,
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dealing with her regrets over her mistakes
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and her mindset that she's had in the past,
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really up until she met Subaru.
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And the Bible verse I wanted to kind of tie into that
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is Psalms chapter 139, verse 14.
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I will praise you because I have been remarkably
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and wondrously made.
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Your works are wondrous and I know this very well.
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And essentially what it is is, you know,
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you're seeing yourself in a positive light
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because you are made just to be who you are, right?
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You're not defined by the mistakes that you've made.
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You know, you're not defined by the burdens
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and regrets you're holding onto.
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You're defined by our Lord, right?
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He's called you to be more than that.
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He knows about the mistakes you've made,
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that you're going to make and you know,
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everything in between, right?
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So, I mean, that was the case.
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All of us are just terrible beings, right?
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And none of us are perfect.
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None of us have lived that perfect life, right?
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We've all done something or said something
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that we regret and wish we could take back, right?
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And for Rem, it starts back in, really,
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from the very beginning, from her birth.
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And to kind of really, in order to really show that,
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and kind of go back to how Rem and her twin sister, Ram,
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were born and kind of grew up, right?
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So, for Rem, she has a huge inferiority complex
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to her older twin sister, Ram.
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And she holds both respect and guilt for her sister.
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And that's because, so, like I said before,
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Rem and Ram are onis or demons
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or whatever you want to call it.
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But in the verse, they're called onis, right?
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And typically, onis are born with two horns.
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You know, that's kind of just like a trademark of their,
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they have the two horns.
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And when it comes to twins,
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their twins are seen as a bad omen
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because both twins or each twin
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is only born with one horn, right?
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The pair is just split between the two.
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And normally that kind of dampers
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their overall capabilities, quality of life,
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things like that.
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So they were actually going to be executed
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the day they were born because they were twins.
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And Ram, the older one, she protected both her and Rem
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with her extraordinary magical power, you know?
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Because Ram was pretty much good at everything.
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Pretty much every, literally everything from magic,
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you know, cooking, hunting, all the different things
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that were valued in their culture, Ram excelled at.
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While Rem did, you know,
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not to say she was bad at those things,
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she just wasn't as proficient as her sister was.
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And that started to be the sense of,
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like I say, inferiority and kind of resentment within Rem,
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not so much towards Ram, but towards herself,
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where Rem believed that if she,
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if she being Ram and she had never been born,
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then her sister could have been that much more better off,
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right, than can have been way more successful,
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whatever the case may be.
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And it feels like, again,
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that she's just better off not existing.
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And I know, I know a lot of us kind of go through
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that whole thing.
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You know, you think, you know, the world or whoever you're,
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you know, the people that you care about,
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you may think that they may be better off without you
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for whatever the case may be, whatever the reasoning is.
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That's not true.
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That's not true at all.
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You know, you were put here for a reason
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and you've made the relationship you've made for a reason.
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And, you know, your life and their lives
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would be changed drastically if you weren't here.
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Well, obviously your life, you wouldn't have a life
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because you wouldn't be here,
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but you get what I'm saying.
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But anyway, back to the whole kind of mindset thing,
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you know, you don't, you may not,
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you may think that you don't deserve to know these people,
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to be in this situation, to have favors shown upon you.
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And, you know, in whatever the case may be,
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maybe you've been told your whole life
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that you don't deserve anything.
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So you start to believe it.
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Or on the, on flip side,
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maybe not straight out told that you don't deserve it.
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You just never been told that you do.
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And both of those things make it equally hard
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to believe that.
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And listen, in Rem's case, she was never,
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outside of the initial discrimination for them being twins,
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she was never put down or anything like that
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in terms of her lack of, lack of ability.
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Because again, Rem, she could,
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she was able to do everything that Ram could do,
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but just not as well, nowhere near as well, honestly.
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Ram was actually kind of a genius
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when it came to a lot of these things.
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But because everyone was praising Ram so much,
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Rem just, and Rem just felt like she was, you know,
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just there on the sideline, like, you know,
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typical younger sibling syndrome, right?
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You're living in the shadow of your older,
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of your older sibling or your older family member,
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you know, whether it might be your parents, you know,
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if you grew up in a town where your parents are very well
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known for their accomplishments and things like that.
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And I kind of touched on this point a little bit
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with Subaru during his episode about how his father was,
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you know, the greatest thing is to slice bread.
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And then you got him, him being Subaru, you know,
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everyone, they don't see the actual person that's standing
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there, they see who they're related to.
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And this is a similar, similar take with, with Rem.
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And that's part of the reason why they,
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Rem and Subaru were able to connect as well as they do,
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because that type of familiarity, right?
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At least that's my take on it.
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When I, when I was watching it and going back with my
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research for these episodes,
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I feel like that similarity in both of their backstories
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where they were, you know, whether directly or not,
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compared to their family members who could do everything
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under the sun and they themselves couldn't.
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And I think that does breed that type of inferiority
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complex, that type of resentment eventually towards
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either the person you're being compared to or resentment
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towards yourself because you can't live up to other
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people's expectations for you.
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And both of those are very, you know,
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very dangerous places to be.
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So again, that's kind of all where it started with Rem.
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And where it kind of shifts to the guilt aspect of it
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is what happens later.
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So, yeah, some years have passed after the twins have been
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born, I can't really say how old they are.
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Maybe, you know, eight or nine in human years, right?
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And they're still children,
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but their village is attacked by, you know,
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the witch's cult, which is the main,
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one of the main bad groups in the, in their series itself.
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And during the attack, I mean,
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Ram was, you know,
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taking care of the vast majority of the enemies.
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Because again, she's just that strong, right?
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And she was just trying to make sure that she protected her
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sister Rem.
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But in that process, I guess the main boss of the raid
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at that point, he attacked Ram and broke her horn off.
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And for Oni's, you know, once they lose their horn,
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and that's pretty much a wrap.
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Not like they die or anything,
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but their magic control is nowhere near what it used to be.
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And it's kind of, it's just, it's not a good thing, right?
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But in that moment, when Rem saw her sister lose her horn
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for a split second, she felt joy in her heart.
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And I'm saying like a real brief moment,
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like not even something that she didn't really register
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until later on when she started reflecting on it.
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And that glimpse of joy that she felt at someone else's pain,
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not just someone else, but her sister's pain,
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her sister's misfortune ate, ate Ram up,
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ate her up from the inside.
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It, it, and it's funny,
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funny's not the right word, but looking back at it, right?
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How many people do we know or have known like that
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who they do take joy at someone else's misfortune for,
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and like genuine joy out of it.
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I'm not talking about this fleeting feeling
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that Rem had for a brief second.
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I'm talking about they get their kicks from it, right?
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They love seeing people fail.
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They love seeing people go through hardship, right?
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And I think as humans, as humans,
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I think we do enjoy seeing it to an extent.
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And I don't want to say enjoy it,
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like we get the pleasure from it,
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but it's that's the reason why we watch all these
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quote unquote reality TV shows, right?
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We, it's something about seeing people go through
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some type of struggle,
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whether it's something that we can relate to,
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whether it's something that, you know,
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when they make it to the other side,
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that we strive to be, to be at the other end,
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whatever the case may be.
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But what I'm talking about here
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is for the people who genuinely get like,
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like how we watch, you know, sports or something like that,
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how we get the, you know, that rush, that feeling,
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you know, when our team finally wins,
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they get that same feeling from people suffering.
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And for them, it's a sick kick.
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But in Rem's case, it wasn't that,
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I mean, again, it was a fleeting feeling,
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but for her, she felt just,
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oh, she was just overwhelmed with guilt,
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overwhelmed with guilt.
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I mean, this is something that she held onto for years
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and she didn't tell anyone until,
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and again, she met Subaru years later.
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But this, this, you know, overwhelming guilt
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led Rem to essentially strive to be the perfect replacement
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for her sister.
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And it did two things for me, it made Rem put her sister
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on a pedestal to idolize her.
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And because she's trying to be everything
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that her sister was before,
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because after this, after Ram lost her horn,
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she essentially became terrible at everything, right?
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I mean, it did like a whole 180,
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where Rem was better at Ram than everything.
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And it's funny, despite that, Rem,
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the younger one, she put her sister on a pedestal,
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always saying that, you know,
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Ram's the best at everything, she can do everything.
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Ram can't do anything without Rem's help.
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but looking back in the backstory
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and how it all played out, it begins to make sense.
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right?
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That she's trying so hard to be everything her sister was,
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to be the ideal, everything, ideal maid,
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ideal sister, ideal fighter, whatever,
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in the insert title here,
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that's what Rem's struggle showed to be,
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she showed to be the best at,
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because she's trying to live up to where her sister was.
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And she feels guilty, because she feels like it was her fault
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that her sister never lived up to her potential
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for being born.
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And B, she felt extremely guilty,
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because in her sister's distress,
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she felt just a fleeting moment of joy.
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And because she holds herself by a death grip,
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essentially that, hey, you know,
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I don't deserve happiness because what I did,
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because of how I felt when my sister was suffering,
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because I feel like I took that from her.
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And the question I have is,
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how many of us feel like that today,
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that we feel like we don't deserve happiness,
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that we don't deserve joy and goodness in our life,
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because in a moment of weakness,
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in a moment of naivety, whatever you wanna call it,
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we fell, I mean, there's no better way to put it, we fell.
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Whether it's we let ourselves down,
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we let our loved ones down,
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we got joy out of someone else's torment or whatever,
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struggle that they're going through,
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we feel like they deserved it,
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that it's good for them and made us feel, whatever it is.
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I'm just giving general examples,
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but I'm sure you thought of something
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or a couple of things by now.
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And I'm asking yourself,
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do you still deserve to be held captive by that, by yourself?
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And I ain't talking about someone else bringing it up,
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someone else holding you accountable for it,
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but you putting yourself down.
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Because again, this whole season is about us facing our past,
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it's about us facing it and accepting our past
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for what had happened so we can heal and move on.
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You mean, not saying it's never gonna be there
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or it's gonna be long forgotten about,
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is the water in the bridge like, no, it's still there,
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it still happened, you're still gonna have the scars from it,
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but now it's not an open wound.
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And that's what we're trying to get.
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So I'm really praying that you guys get
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and maybe get over that hump and just realize,
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it's okay to forgive yourself.
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Oftentimes it's the hardest,
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we're the hardest people to forgive is ourselves
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because we hold ourselves up to a higher standard
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that sometimes isn't feasible, right?
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Because again, we're all human, we all have to make mistakes.
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And it does take, sometimes it does take someone else
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to give us an extra push to pull us out,
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get us out of our own heads, right?
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So we can actually be functioning people again.
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And for Rem, of course, that person was Subaru
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because he's got that main character energy
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that always works on everybody around him.
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And Subaru was able to convince Rem to let go
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of her resentful feelings
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and to actually look towards the future, right?
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Again, that the whole thing of letting go of the past
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and looking forward.
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And the way he does this is essentially,
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so after he saves the village
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from the demi-human demon attack or whatever,
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he ends up saving Rem as well.
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Because so the village that's near the mansion
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that they stay at was being attacked
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by these demon doll type monster things
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that if they bite you, they inflict you with a curse
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and you're just gonna die.
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That's typically how it is.
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And Subaru and Rem went to go save some of the kids
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who were captured by the beast.
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And of course, while they rescue them,
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of course they get attacked themselves.
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And even though Rem is the better fighter
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between the two by far,
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she was about to be overwhelmed
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and just essentially killed.
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But in the last minute,
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Subaru came and pushed her out the way
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so he could take the brunt of the attack.
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No one thought that was gonna kill him.
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But luckily Roswaal and them got there in time,
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got him to safety and he didn't die.
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He didn't have to start over in that loop.
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But it was in that moment that Rem realized
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Subaru saved her in more than one way.
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It wasn't just a physical thing in their talk afterwards.
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When he essentially just encouraged her to live for herself,
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to not have her whole existence be wrapped up
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in being Rom's twin and being what Rom used to be
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is just understanding that you're you, she's her.
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And whatever might've happened,
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and none of that matters anymore
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because she still loves you, you love her,
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and you're both here now.
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So now you gotta essentially turn from that dark place
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you're in and face the sun
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so you can actually walk towards it.
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And basically from that point on,
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Subaru becomes a pillar of support for her,
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or as she calls him, her hero.
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And because he understands and encourages her
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to move past her past, to actually not be in that same place.
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And I think it's funny how, it's funny
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because it's easy for us to tell that to other people
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than it is for us to do it ourselves.
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Because when Subaru telling Rem this
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is essentially the same thing he needed to do
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to pass the trial in the sanctuary.
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But the trial for him happened way later after this fact.
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I mean, this happened towards the beginning of the series
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but with him talking to Rem and encouraging her
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and then the sanctuary happened.
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If you're watching the anime, it happens in season two.
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So it's a whole season after this.
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And it just goes to show that why we need other people
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to help push us through some of the darkest times
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in our life, because they are able to see more things
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than we are.
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And again, I know for me sometimes,
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well, that's the long with my thoughts.
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I tend to beat myself up more than I need to.
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I mean, I've gotten a lot better with it over the years
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and doesn't happen nor near as much.
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But there are times where you're thinking so much
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and you literally thinking yourself to death.
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And that's just, that's not gonna help anyone.
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So I just wanna ask who is your,
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quote unquote Subaru, who's your hero?
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Who has been that person who's been there for you
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and who helped you get out of your darkness?
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And if you have someone like that,
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I encourage you to go and thank them really.
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If they're still with us, I encourage you to reach out
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to them in whatever way you feel comfortable
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and just thank them and let them know
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that you appreciate what they've done.
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And if you don't have anyone like that in your life,
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then don't worry.
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Don't worry because I truly believe
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when you want something bad enough,
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God's gonna put the right people in your path,
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in your realm.
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And again, it may not even be for you,
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maybe for you to help somebody else.
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But I know for me, one of the best things,
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best ways to help get out of a rut
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is to help somebody else with theirs.
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Because it does something,
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one, it brings you closer with that person,
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and two, it gets your mind off of your own issues.
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A mind, because like I said,
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sometimes you think things to death,
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you think yourself to death,
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and not just taking your mind off a thing,
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even if it's just for a day,
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really, really helps get the ball rolling
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and may help you get to that breakthrough.
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I mean, you never know.
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So I encourage you just don't give up.
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Don't give up.
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Don't be bogged down by what you've done,
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what you might've done,
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what you wish you hadn't done,
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what you should have,
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what it could've showed us.
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You mean, yes, it happened or it didn't happen,
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but the fact is you're here now,
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you're still standing, you're still breathing,
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and that means there's something else,
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a memory or something else on the other side.
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Just like Subaru, just like Amelia,
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just like Roswald, and just like Ram,
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they've all had, I mean, not Ram, R.E.M.,
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they've all had different things in their past
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that have holding them back from their potential,
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from moving on, from really utilizing themselves
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to their fullest potential,
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and they've all had to get through it in a different way
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in their own inner internal battles,
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and they've all had people there who supported them,
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who pushed them forward,
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and who truly believe in them for them,
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not because of who they know, who they're related to,
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not even because they believe in who they are right now,
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it's because they believe in who they are,
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who they're meant to be,
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and who they can see them as,
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if that kind of makes sense, right?
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Because again, all the people we see who are successful,
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nowadays, the professional athletes,
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the actors and actresses,
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the people in the political space,
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the people who you see all the time who have made it there,
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they weren't always there, right?
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They started from somewhere,
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they're human just like me and you,
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and they've made their mistakes,
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they've put in time, they've put in the effort,
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they've reconciled with themselves
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in some form or fashion that allowed them to move forward
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to get to the level that they're at now,
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and that's in all of us, right?
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That's in all of us,
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that by itself isn't special,
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that's something that we all can do,
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and I really just wanna encourage each and every one of you
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to really strive for that,
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strive for that to get past your mental block,
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get past your past,
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and just be able to move forward, you know?
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That's pretty much it, we're just trying to get better,
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one day at a time.
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Well, this is the end of this season,
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I hope you guys enjoyed ReZero,
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and hopefully you might check it out at some point.
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I think at the time of recording this,
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season three was announced, so I'm excited,
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can't wait to get back into it,
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but for next season, we're gonna look at an anime
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that really shows us what it means to go back to basics,
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and how starting over isn't always a bad thing,
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and really what it means to kinda back to basics
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is just kinda really going back to the root of it all,
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of whether it's your journey, your passion,
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or whatever it is that you're striving for,
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and really have some time in order to get ahead,
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we gotta start over.
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And this is an anime where science prevails overall,
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Dr. Stone.
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So again, look forward to that,
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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,
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and hopefully you learned something new about yourself,
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and throughout this whole journey
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that you just learned to reflect, accept,
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and move forward, you know?
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Feel free to subscribe to the podcast, leave a review,
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I would love reading guys' comments,
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and it helps me improve each and every episode.
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And always remember,
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you are the main character of your story,
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and that story doesn't end until he says so.
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All right, be blessed.
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And I'll see you guys next time.
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Peace.
