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You know, growing isn't easy, but it can be exciting. But it can also be terrifying.
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Because you never know what's on the other side waiting for you. But you'll never find out if
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you don't even take the first step. And on today's episode, we're looking at an anime movie that
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tackles the idea of growing up and moving into new seasons of our lives while also showing the
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difficulties that come with it. And that movie is Digimon Adventure Final Evolution Kizuna.
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Hey, what's going on guys? My name is Nate. You're listening to the Otaku Liberation,
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a show where we help you break the chains that hold you back in your life by connecting biblical
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principles with themes from your favorite anime. And without further ado, let's get right on into
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it. In today's verse that honestly, can you just explain it way better than I can is 1st Corinthians
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chapter 13 verse 11. And it says, when I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child,
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I reasoned like a child. But when I became a man, I put aside childish things. Now,
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when I first read this verse, you know, many years ago when I was a child, right? I thought that
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means, you know, oh, man, when I'm an adult, I can't play video games anymore. I can't watch
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cartoons. I can't watch anime anymore. No, but in all this years, what it really means is that
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there is a time and a place for certain things in our lives, right? And is really what this
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verse is really saying is that, you know, we're living, we live in seasons, there's a season to
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be a child, there's a season to be a man or woman. And there's a season to be, you know, a parent
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to be a season to be a spouse, you know, all these things, a leader, whatever it is, they're, they
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come in, these things come and go in seasons. And what this verse is really saying is that once you
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move on to the next season, you put away the things from the previous one, right? The things
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that you don't need anymore, the things that will no longer help you in this upcoming season, the
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upcoming battle, upcoming transformation that you're going to experience. This speaks to this
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movie in such a way that it's honestly like, if I can't convince you to go watch this movie at the
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end of this episode, then I failed you. I'm sorry. But even if you, even if I have, don't convince
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you, just go watch it. You know, it's pretty awesome. Nobody's intended anyway. So to kind of
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give you a little background story, Digimon Adventure, the original series started back in
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the early 2000s, I think, you know, 2000, 2001, something like that. And as a matter of time when,
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you know, Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh, all those, all those cartoons, all those animes came out around
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the same time. And this movie is basically putting a nice bow on that original group story.
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So the Digimon Adventure kids, the protagonists are called, you know, the Digi Destin, you know,
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they're the kids who partner up with the monsters called Digimon and, you know, their task was saving
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the world because anime. And at that time, I think the majority of the characters were,
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I don't know, I had a guess between 10 and 11 at the time. That's how old they were. And here in
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this movie, they're in their early 20s. Like they're going to college, you know, trying to
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figure out what they want to do with their lives and things like that. So for me as a watcher,
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someone who watched the original series back when it first came out, you know, and who has grown up
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literally with these characters, because I'm in my mid 20s now. And when this movie came out,
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I was in my early 20s. It really, it spoke to me on a deeper level than what even when I realized.
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And it really breaks down the, it's the three phases we all go through when it comes to facing
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a new season, facing a new, a new beginning in our lives. And the first point is the phase of
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uncertainty. So the two, I guess, leaders of the group of kids called Ty and Matt. Now at all the
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thing is like eight, nine of them, I believe out of the eight or nine kids, Ty and Matt are the
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only ones who are really uncertain about their futures. You know, what are they going to do
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after they graduate college and things like that? And like, what does that mean? Are they always
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going to be fighting Digimon or are they going to get, you know, adult jobs? What, what is it that
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they're going to do? And they don't know. All of their friends knew exactly what they wanted to do,
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except for them two. Cause one guy, one guy, he's already CEO of a company because he's just a
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whiz like that. Matt's brother, TK is writing a novel. So one of their friends started her
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own online business. Another one wants school to be a doctor. So all, all the people who they shared
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these incredible journey, just stories and just lifelong friends that they've had, they're all
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figuring out what they want to do in this next, is next season. But these two essentially just stuck,
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stuck in the current season. They don't, they haven't even really thought about it. Not even
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sure what direction they want to go. And honestly, just kind of really hit home for me because I
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said, okay, Hey, we're all on different walks in our lives. It may look similar. Like where we've
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been may look similar, but ultimately someone else's walk isn't going to be the same as ours.
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We're going to branch off and go in different directions. And I think, I think it's just
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hilarious that they decided to do this for 20 somethings. Right. Because I know most of us
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probably really don't figure out what we want to do until we are right at the beginning of our
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thirties or even into our thirties. Some people even older than that. And, but typically it starts
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back here. Like starts when you're, you're going to school, you're in college, or maybe you're
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already working something like that. You're in the phase where I'm not, I'm out from underneath
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my parents. Like they don't have a direct say or control on what I do now. And then it's first time
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having this type of freedom and responsibility, but now I don't know what to do with it. I really
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don't know what it is I want to do, or you had an idea about what you wanted to do. And then you
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started doing it. And now you're like, maybe this isn't it. Maybe this isn't what I thought it would
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be. And now you have to make that pivot, but you don't know what to pivot to. And Hey, you guys,
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let me know if you've just ever felt like that, or if you're currently feeling like that right now,
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you just, you just have your hands up like, God, I don't know what it is I'm going to do. I don't
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even know what I'm doing now. And to make it, I'll make this even worse for Ty and Matt and Ozzy,
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all the Digi Destiny is that they are faced with this harsh reality that, that they will eventually
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lose their Digimon partners. So again, I kind of touched on in the beginning that again, the kids
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partner with these Digimon in order to combat evil and things like that. Well, in the movie,
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it's explained why Digimon choose kids. And that's because kids have basically unlimited potential
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because they can be anything that they want to be. Right. They can grow to be lawyers, doctors,
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police officers, teachers, professional athletes. They have an abundance of opportunity and choices,
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right? Because they haven't, they haven't selected a defined path. But as kids grow up, as we get
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older and we become more hardened to the ways of life, we started getting narrowed down into
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certain aspects, certain paths. And that potential starts to get used up. And once you're out of
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potential, at least in the terms of this scenario, then your bond with your Digimon partner is broken.
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It's broken forever. Like you don't, they, they just vanish. They go away. You don't, you don't
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ever get to see them again. And that's really harsh for them. Cause again, these guys were,
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I again, I could say at around 10 or 11, when they first met their partners, they're in their early
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twenties now. So that's over 10 years of, of a best friend. Like they, they are best friends
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with their partners. They, they go everywhere. They eat together, they sleep together, they,
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you know, bathe, all the things like this, this is their best friend. And just to be told that one
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day you're going to lose them just like that up in the puff of smoke. And understandably, they're
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very, very, very upset about that. But I like to, like to look at it in the way for us, right? Is
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that when we're faced with the end of a season, oftentimes going to the next one is very scary,
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especially when you can't bring along something that is so dear to you, something that, or someone
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that has gotten you through the previous season, but now it's time to, to let go, but we don't want
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to be mainly because we don't know what the future holds. So we were clinging to the comfortable,
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we're clinging to the, to what we know, what we know has worked before. So why wouldn't it work
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again? Right. But unfortunately that's not how God works. That's not how life works because we have
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to leave our comfort zone. We have to leave our comfort behind in order to gain what is promised
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to us. Right. Cause again, God answers all prayers. He really does. He answers them in his own timing,
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which doesn't always line up with ours, but they will be answered. They can be a yes, no, or not
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yet. Right. But regardless there, they will be answered. And we just have to be willing to trust
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in that and to just walk into the uncertainty with the faith that he's going to answer it.
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And that's super hard. Trust me. I, I, man, do I know that a lot of people listening and know that
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too, that it's, it's hard, it's hard to do that. And that's why it leads to this next phase. So
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you're going from uncertainty to holding on, right? You just hold on for dear life to what you have,
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you hold on to what you've already been blessed with in this current season, because you are
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afraid to move on to the next one and in Tai and Matt's case, they're literally, they're literally
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holding on. They are trying to figure out any possible way that they can prevent their partner,
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Digimon from disappearing. Despite the grim situation, despite the cold hard facts, like
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this is happening, it's going to happen. There's nothing you can do to prevent it. No mythical
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scientific way that this is just how it is. This is how it always is. This is how it's always going
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to be. But they, they just want to take no for an answer. And understandably, they reacted very
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angrily at the aspect that their best friends are just going to be taken from them for no reason,
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for no fault of their own. This thing is happening to them. And man, again, I could just rethinking,
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thinking about this movie and watching just the emotion behind it. Just like, man, you thought,
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you think you're doing everything that you're supposed to do. You're doing everything right,
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doing everything that you need to do. But this still happens to you. Like bad things happen to
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good people. And sometimes the bad things aren't bad in the long run, they're bad in the moment.
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But ultimately it may be necessary for your growth later on. Because throughout the movie,
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I see both Matt and Tai and eventually the rest of the DigiDestined grow even more because of this
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situation. Because of the fact that now is a, hey, we're not, I'm not going to have my partner
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for very much longer. So how can I, you know, capitalize on how can I maximize that? How can I
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get the most out of it? And then what I'm going to do after it, right? That mindset is, it's a hard
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one to be in, but it's kind of, kind of, it's like how we got to look at things in real life.
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Because, Hey, none of us are going to be here forever. Some of us are going to get called home
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sooner than others. And we don't know that, right? I mean, we don't have this glowing little circle
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of time. It tells us how much time we have left with our best friends, you know, whether it's a
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pet for some people or like an actual human, but we just don't know, right? They can be,
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they can be called up at any given moment. We can be called up in any given moment. We don't know.
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And then it kind of goes back into the uncertainty aspect of it. We just, we just don't, right?
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We don't know what tomorrow holds. We don't even know what today holds. Just cause I woke up today,
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doesn't mean I'm going to be alive at the end of it. And those are the thoughts that we don't want
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to think about, understandably so, but it's something that we should be conscious of, something
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that we should be aware of that, Hey, we don't, we're not, we don't live forever. So how can we
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just maximize the time we have here with the people that we want to spend the most time with?
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And honestly, man, again, this, this movie gets me choked up every time to watching it. Cause again,
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it hits, it hits really hard for me, partly for the nostalgia, but also because of the message
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that is trying to convey and me right now being in the current change of seasons is I'm trying to
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move, move past these phases as quickly as I can know, now that I know what they are, but it's still
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hard. So I just want to ask you, you know, what are you holding onto from a previous season?
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The thing about where you are now, what's gotten you there. And I may now, maybe you feel like God's
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pulling you into a different direction. You know, maybe he's trying to lead you into something even
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greater, but you're hesitant. You feel like, no, I'm good here. Everything is, everything's good.
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I'm okay. But he's trying to move you from being an okay to being blessed, but you're not willing
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to take that first step. And oftentimes because the hardest things to let go of are the good things
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because they felt it out before. Right. I'm not saying, it's not like, you know, if you have,
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you know, I don't know, something that's hurting, you have a thorn in your side, right.
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It's nothing for you to just say, Hey, take this out of me. I don't want this anymore. I don't need
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this to, to go where I'm going. Right. Cause it's hurting you something bad, but you're not
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that, but if it's, I don't know that new video game, I'm sorry, these analogies are terrible,
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but maybe it was a gaming system or even this nice house that you got, you know, God tells you to,
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Hey, you need to sell it and move to this place. Cause I need you here. We're like,
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I don't want to do that because I'm good here. And I'm good where I am. I love the location. I
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love the area. I love my neighbors. The house is awesome. Thank you so much. And God's like,
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yeah, I know, but I need you over here. So the good things are the hardest things for us to let go.
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But again, in order for us to grow, we have to keep moving forward and not become stagnant,
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not become complacent, not become content and content to the point where we're just lulled,
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lulled to a false sense of security. Right. And we have to be willing to move forward. Now,
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one character who did not understand this was Manawa Belushi. And she's the main antagonist
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of this whole movie and tragic, you want to know one of these tragic villain stories, but so she
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is a former Digi Destin herself. And as a matter of fact, she's the one who told Matt and Ty and
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the rest of the guys about their part in Digimon being taken from them because it happened to her.
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And once that happened, she made a vow that it was going to be her mission to quote unquote,
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save the other Digi Destin from going through the same pain that she went through. And that was
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basically by she created this Digimon to digitize their consciousness. They're basically robbing
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people of their consciousness. They go into comas and it takes their Digimon partners with them and
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puts them in this, you know, dream world place where they're back to being kids again with their
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digital partners. And that way they don't, they never grow up. So they never get separated. So
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they get to not really live, but they get to be with their Digimon partner forever. And
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it's so twisted because honestly, you can't be saved by holding on to the past or the present.
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You have to face your future. You have to go into the next season. You have to go into the next step
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of life. And that was something that Menoa just did not get. She did not understand.
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And she went about it the wrong way. I mean, again, the goal was noble. She wanted to save
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the people from the pain that she went through, but ultimately that's a pain that they're going
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to have to go through anyway. Just like it's literally growing pains. Growing pains is the
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only turn that could fit this situation right here, because they're going to have to grow up.
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They're going to have to become adults and grow into that new phase of life. And unfortunately,
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that also means that they're going to be separated from the digital partners forever. And that's
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as much as that sucks. That's just his life. There's certain things that we just can't bring
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into the next season anymore. And once you understand that reality, it hits you like a ton
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of bricks. At least it did me. I was in here crying the first time I saw this movie,
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because it just hits so hard. But once you get past that and accept it, then you're able to
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to move forward, which is the third phase, right? Growing up and just moving forward.
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So to end the story, Ty and Matt, knowing what this means, they digital follow their partners
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one last time, using up basically the last of their potential to basically end Menoa's evil plan.
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Right. They had this big, beautiful battle against her evil Digimon. And then Ty and Matt's partners,
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DigiFall, have these new forms that is only possible at the end of their friendship,
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at the end of their partnership. And basically, they're able to save everyone and everyone's
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consciousness is returned. But after the final battle, Ty and Matt lose their partners.
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Yeah. And it's a heartbreaking moment, because one of those things that you when you know something's
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coming doesn't really make it better. It doesn't make it better more often than not. And then when
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it finally happens, even if you've prepared for it, even if you've done what you can to try to
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prepare for it, it still just hits you like a ton of bricks. And especially when it comes to losing
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a person, losing a partner like that, it leaves this hole in you. But they decide to wear smiles
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on their face because they're looking towards the next season in their lives. They decided they're
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not going to look back at what was and look forward to what could be and what is like what
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they're doing right now. And they believe in their hearts that eventually they're going to
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see their partners again. Now, I mean, I don't know, I would like to I would like to because, again,
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this series means so much to me. I would love to see their partners come back. But if they don't,
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then I have already mentally prepared myself for it. But I digress. Essentially going into a new
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season, it is daunting. And we want to fight it as much as possible as much as we physically can
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to not take that next that next step, because we're uncertain of it. We want to hold on to things
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that give us comfort, things that have helped us out in the past. But we all have to grow up
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and leave things behind and no longer fit our current lives. And that's OK. It's not always bad
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things. There's nothing to leave behind a job. You can leave behind relationships. I think those
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are the toughest ones for people. And oftentimes it's not even bad things, right? Like no one
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you didn't have a fallen out. You didn't, you know, you didn't call each other out of each other's
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name. You know, by the betrayed each other is just that sometimes you grow up and you grow apart
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because your lives are going in two different directions. Now, it doesn't mean any love is
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lost. No. And to me, you can't reach out and still have a conversation. No. But what it does
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me is that that relationship had its place. It had its purpose. But now it's not needed anymore.
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And I need you over here and you have to pivot. So I just want to end this off by just encouraging
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you to thank God for the memories and blessings he sent your way before and just look forward to
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him doing them again. All right. Don't let's not get so caught up in what we have in what we had
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and what we want to do and all this different things. Let's just take a moment, take a breather
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and just just thank God for what he's already done and what he will do and then take that to
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heart as we step forward into this new season of our lives, as we grow into the people that
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he's called us to be and be a little more like Matt and Ty, man. Just let's face the future with
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a smile on her face because I mean, in the end, that's all we really can do. Right.
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So that's all I got. I got for you guys today. Maybe you like what you heard today and you want
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to take a deeper look and then head on over to the attack liberation.net where you find a blog
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article that covers today's episode in more detail. And you also find a link to our YouTube
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channel where I post even more content like this. And don't forget to come back next week because
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I'm really excited for this season because we're going to look at a season or a series that is one
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of my favorites of all time. And technically it isn't an anime, but I do think plenty of fans
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will agree that it should be. And we claim it as one. And that is the mythical world of Avatar,
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the last airbender. So until then, always remember guys, you are the main character of your story.
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And that story doesn't end until he says so. All right. Be blessed.
