1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,840 I'm never going to be good enough. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,920 I'll never live up to their expectations. 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:07,000 Who am I? 4 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,320 And why does anything I do even matter? 5 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:10,360 I should just give up. 6 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,680 You know, honestly, if you've been alive long enough, 7 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:16,480 you've asked yourself one, if not several 8 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:18,080 of these questions before, 9 00:00:18,080 --> 00:00:20,400 because what people don't really tell you 10 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:22,440 is that being yourself can be considered 11 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:26,400 the hardest job ever, you know, depending on who you ask. 12 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:29,480 And if you ask this character for this episode, 13 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,840 he say that it's close to impossible to just be himself. 14 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:34,440 And of course, the character I'm talking about 15 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:37,080 is the star of ReZero, Subaru, Naski. 16 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:40,080 ["Ring of the Bells"] 17 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:55,320 Hey, what's going on guys? 18 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:56,440 My name is Nate, and you're listening 19 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:58,120 to the Otaku Liberation, 20 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:00,120 the show where we help you break free from the chains 21 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:01,440 that are holding you back in your life 22 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:03,040 by connecting some biblical principles 23 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:04,960 with things from your favorite anime. 24 00:01:04,960 --> 00:01:07,160 And without further ado, let's get into it. 25 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:11,120 So the first one I want to go over today 26 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:14,520 in regards to Subaru and his kind of journey 27 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:18,840 of self-discovery, right, is Romans chapter 14, verse eight. 28 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,400 It says, if we live, we live for the Lord, 29 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:24,800 and if we die, we die for the Lord. 30 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:27,240 Therefore, whether we live or die, 31 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:29,560 we belong to the Lord. 32 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:32,880 And what I want to kind of break down 33 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:34,800 and kind of dissect from the verse 34 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:37,400 in how it applies to Subaru and ourselves 35 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:41,000 is that one, knowing we are God's is paramount. 36 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:45,040 And in knowing that, you know who you are as well, right? 37 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:49,040 You know that you were created for a purpose, 38 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:50,400 you're here for a purpose, 39 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:52,320 and you're still here for a purpose, right? 40 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:53,800 And the fact that you wake up each and every day 41 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:57,080 means your role isn't over yet. 42 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:58,800 You're not done. 43 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,760 And I don't know about you, that feels good to me, 44 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,880 knowing that I get to wake up another day, right? 45 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:09,080 And for now, for Subaru to discover that, 46 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,680 because he doesn't just know that innately, right? 47 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:12,500 None of us do. 48 00:02:12,500 --> 00:02:14,360 We don't know that even if we're told, 49 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:16,640 we have to eventually believe it, 50 00:02:16,640 --> 00:02:18,440 even once we see it for ourselves. 51 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:21,800 And for Subaru, from the longest time, 52 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:26,160 he was, honestly just grew up in his dad's shadow. 53 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:30,080 And from what we understand, his dad was super likable, 54 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:33,640 kind of a every man, so to speak, right? 55 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:36,960 You know, athletic, super smart, 56 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:41,560 he helped out around the town that Subaru grew up in. 57 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:45,280 So everyone knew him, everyone loves him, and all of that. 58 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:50,280 And because of that, every time they saw Subaru, 59 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:54,600 it was always, oh, you're so-so son, right? 60 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:56,760 Forgive me, his Subaru dad's name escapes me right now, 61 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:00,640 but essentially they never saw Subaru, not Skidish, 62 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:03,120 they saw him as his dad's son. 63 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:07,600 And that kind of developed a sort of inferiority complex 64 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:08,440 to him. 65 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:11,960 Now, for those of you who have older siblings, 66 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,320 or even in this same scenario, have parents who, 67 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,440 maybe you grew up in the same town that they grew up in, 68 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:21,000 and everyone just loves them to death. 69 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:22,880 They're super awesome. 70 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:25,280 They're just best names to slice bread. 71 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:30,280 And you come up behind them, and all they see is, 72 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:35,640 basically you being that person's younger sibling, child, 73 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:37,240 whatever the case may be, 74 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:40,000 instead of seeing you as your own person, right? 75 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,920 So that can develop a lot of different things. 76 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,640 You can be resentment towards the person 77 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:48,120 you're being compared to, because, you know, 78 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:50,680 how dare they be this good, or this great, 79 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:52,160 or whatever the case may be. 80 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:55,400 And now no one sees me for me. 81 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:59,920 And what ultimately ends up happening for a lot of the time 82 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:02,560 is what Subaru ends up doing is, 83 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:06,680 you become so desperate for attention, 84 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:10,320 attention for who you are and not who you're related to, 85 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:12,560 who you're being compared to, right? 86 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:14,680 To get people to understand you're not that person, 87 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:16,360 you're your own person. 88 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:18,480 And, like I said, in Subaru's case, 89 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:23,360 he tried to become essentially the class clown. 90 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:26,600 Always, he never took anything serious, 91 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:30,320 or he never took a serious situation serious, 92 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:31,320 a lot of seriousness. 93 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:34,080 But no matter what would happen, 94 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,080 he'd always try to crack a joke and make people laugh, 95 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:38,440 just do outrageous things, 96 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:42,160 just to get that type of attention and validation. 97 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:48,920 And so for me, in my own personal life, 98 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:50,560 it's a similar situation, 99 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,600 but not the exact same, for the same reasons. 100 00:04:55,280 --> 00:04:56,400 The other guy with episode, 101 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:58,760 well I know I talked about before, 102 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:01,600 how for the longest time, I felt like I had to be perfect, 103 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:06,280 and I had to just be perfect at every single thing that I do, 104 00:05:06,280 --> 00:05:08,960 no matter what it was, school, sports, work, 105 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:11,120 any extra side thing I decided to do, 106 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,840 I felt like I had to be perfect and the best at. 107 00:05:13,840 --> 00:05:16,600 Otherwise, I felt like I was letting everyone down. 108 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:21,040 And part of that, the reason is because, 109 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:25,520 again, I have an older sibling who wasn't, 110 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:27,280 she wasn't just the best thing since I was bred, 111 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:29,480 she's more along the other side, 112 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:30,880 on the opposite way. 113 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:33,640 Now, again, this was just in the past, she's grown up, 114 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:37,120 she's 10 times better than what it was. 115 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:41,280 But at that time, she wasn't, right? 116 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:45,200 And there's a lot of personal baggage there, 117 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:46,600 let me just put it that way. 118 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,840 And for me, being the younger sibling, 119 00:05:49,840 --> 00:05:51,480 coming up and seeing all of that, 120 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:54,200 seeing how it affected my parents, 121 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:56,680 how it affected my relationship with her, 122 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:58,920 how it affected her relationship with everybody, 123 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,360 you know, seeing it at a young age, 124 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:04,800 it made me decide to try to never be like that, 125 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:06,960 and to do everything in my power 126 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:09,640 to not come out of that way, 127 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:13,040 to not put my parents through that, to not just, 128 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,040 when people say my name, not to have that type of look, 129 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:19,240 not to have that type of, here you go, you know what I'm saying? 130 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:23,280 And it wasn't too like recently, 131 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:25,000 maybe last two, three years, 132 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,680 where I finally came to terms with that, 133 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:29,280 because for the longest time, 134 00:06:29,280 --> 00:06:32,160 for me, it wasn't so much a desperate for attention 135 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:36,000 type thing, it was just I was carrying around this burden 136 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,520 that I didn't need to carry, right? 137 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:40,440 And this is the burden I gave myself. 138 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:43,040 And again, the cause of that, 139 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:45,360 I mean, the cause, the result of that was, 140 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:50,360 you know, just a lot of just anger and pent up frustration 141 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:52,880 just throughout my life. 142 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:56,000 Again, until two, maybe three years ago, 143 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:57,400 when I came to the realization 144 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:58,680 that's where it was coming from, 145 00:06:58,680 --> 00:06:59,520 because for the longest time, 146 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:00,480 I didn't know where it was coming from. 147 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:03,040 I didn't realize that that was doing something 148 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:06,560 to my mental state, my emotions and things like that. 149 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:10,480 But when I got older and started doing the self work, 150 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:13,280 started reflecting and just really trying to get 151 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:16,280 to the root of why am I so angry all the time? 152 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:19,160 And lo and behold, that's what it was. 153 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:21,280 Now, in Subaru's case, again, 154 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:22,760 it wasn't so much an anger type thing. 155 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:26,880 It was just he was desperate to have people see him for him 156 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:29,080 and not to not see his father. 157 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:33,240 But that backfired, and all his horse playing 158 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:37,840 and things like that, he ended up pushing people away. 159 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:40,600 People never got to know who he was 160 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,680 and he never knew how to build genuine relationships 161 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:46,520 like the ones that are, you know, 162 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:47,800 the true ride or die is, right? 163 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,280 Because yeah, we've all had that one person. 164 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:53,280 You may be that one person who is the class clown, 165 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:56,280 who's always joking, who can never take anything serious 166 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:58,920 and no one can ever take that person serious, right? 167 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:00,400 So that was Subaru. 168 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:01,240 That was Subaru. 169 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:02,680 He was that person you can never take serious, 170 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:03,920 so no one ever did. 171 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:07,840 And again, that caused him to not really understand 172 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:10,920 what true companionship, true friendship 173 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:15,400 and stuff like that was until he ended up in Laguna Gah, 174 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:18,640 in the place where 3-0 takes place. 175 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:21,280 And through all of this, 176 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:23,960 it's caused a serious case of self-loathing. 177 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:25,680 He feels that no matter what he does, 178 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:27,640 he's never good enough. 179 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:32,080 Again, back to the whole being compared to other people, 180 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:32,920 right? 181 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:33,760 It doesn't have to be family. 182 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:36,160 It doesn't, yeah, I know it hits a home for a lot of people 183 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:37,960 because it typically is your family 184 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:42,000 as you're being compared to, for better or for worse. 185 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:47,000 But any comparison to your peers at school, right? 186 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:50,760 You may not be the top of the class, 187 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:54,640 maybe you're just kind of mid-level in the, 188 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:57,080 you know, you're just average, right? 189 00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:57,920 Which is okay. 190 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,040 I mean, again, they, 191 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:01,960 B's and C's go past classes, right? 192 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:03,520 But that doesn't mean you don't try your best 193 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:05,000 and try to go for the A's. 194 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:09,120 But it's just the, when you compare your, 195 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,000 either way you compare yourself to somebody else 196 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,200 or somebody else is comparing you to another person, 197 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,280 it creates this type of pressure, right? 198 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:19,200 Like I said earlier, in my case, right? 199 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,320 It raises pressure and just baggage of something 200 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:24,440 that you don't have to carry, right? 201 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,320 Because you're unique, you're uniquely made, 202 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:32,320 you're made with love and there's never gonna be 203 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:34,720 anyone else like you ever again, right? 204 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:36,000 You're one of a kind. 205 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:38,840 And trying to compare yourself to somebody else 206 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:41,240 or being compared to somebody else just diminishes that. 207 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:45,120 It diminishes the greatness of your uniqueness, right? 208 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:47,320 I mean, I want everyone to embrace who they are 209 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:51,280 and embrace what makes us unique, what makes us different, 210 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:54,640 what makes us strong, what makes us weak, right? 211 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:57,360 And again, like I said earlier, 212 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:59,600 I know being yourself is the hardest job 213 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:01,600 that we, any of us can do. 214 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:04,120 Because in the society where, 215 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:06,240 because in order to live in a society and a community, 216 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:09,320 we have to conform to understand, right? 217 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:10,760 I mean, there's rules for a reason, right? 218 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:14,480 We have to, you know, we have to follow the guidelines. 219 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:18,280 But again, where does that stop, right? 220 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:23,280 When does that, where does, you know, you begin, right? 221 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:27,240 I know some people, they take everything just seriously. 222 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:31,840 Like their personality is whatever society says, right? 223 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:33,320 And that's not, I mean, that's not true. 224 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:35,800 You weren't always like that, right? 225 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:38,400 You look at a bunch of little kids, you just believe 226 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:41,800 they don't care about what any of the rules are, right? 227 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:43,560 They don't care about, you know, 228 00:10:43,560 --> 00:10:48,560 if you're big, tall, you know, skinny, short, 229 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:52,520 and they don't care, they just don't. 230 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:54,320 You're gonna get talked about just the same 231 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,240 and you're gonna have fun with them just the same too. 232 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:01,840 You know, it's just the beauty of being a child, right? 233 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:05,280 You're not exposed to all the craziness 234 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:07,480 that as an adult or as a teenager, 235 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:10,080 as you know, young adult, older, stuff like that, 236 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:11,920 they're not exposed to that type of thing, 237 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:13,280 which as it should be. 238 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:17,400 So I think the beginning of us finding who we are 239 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:18,840 and really embracing who we are, 240 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:20,560 just is going back to that time, 241 00:11:20,560 --> 00:11:22,320 going back to when we were kids 242 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:24,000 and we were just playing on the playground, 243 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,040 playing in the yard and things like that. 244 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:29,280 And really just exploring, right? 245 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:30,960 Explore who you are, who you are, 246 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:33,000 by looking at who you were, right? 247 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,440 You know, could do their self-reflection 248 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:36,720 because I know a lot of these episodes, 249 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:40,880 a lot of the things I go over is about self-reflection, 250 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:43,960 but it doesn't always have to be the negative side, right? 251 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,360 You know, the causes of, you know, 252 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:48,960 the traumas that you might experience in your life. 253 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:51,680 And just go back to the beautiful times too, 254 00:11:51,680 --> 00:11:54,680 the joyous times, the things that really get you going, 255 00:11:54,680 --> 00:11:58,200 the things that at one point in time, 256 00:11:58,200 --> 00:11:59,400 it's the only thing you can think about 257 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:00,520 when you got up in the morning 258 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:02,640 to when you went to bed at night, right? 259 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:05,120 And, or the next morning, you know, 260 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:06,520 I'm looking at you gamers. 261 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:10,080 But go back to that time, 262 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:12,680 go back to when, you know, 263 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:17,320 we were living life and not just living through it. 264 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:19,560 And I do think that as we get older, 265 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:21,120 as we start getting kind of, you know, 266 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:23,560 bogged down with, you know, 267 00:12:23,560 --> 00:12:26,040 the pressures of being a functioning, 268 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:28,040 contributing citizen in society, 269 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:30,560 that we forget what it means to actually live 270 00:12:30,560 --> 00:12:32,280 and to actually enjoy our lives 271 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:34,920 instead of just going through it, 272 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:36,520 trying to survive it, right? 273 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:38,120 Because there is a difference between trying to survive 274 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:40,040 and trying in living. 275 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:44,920 And, you know, I just don't want us to get lost in that, 276 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:45,760 right? 277 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:46,600 So whatever that means to you, 278 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:48,040 whatever that speaks to you, 279 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:50,040 I'm hoping to raise a name for somebody. 280 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:54,280 Because honestly, that's been my quest 281 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:58,440 in my young life so far is just to live 282 00:12:58,440 --> 00:12:59,800 and not just survive. 283 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:02,960 And that's kind of the real kind of big point 284 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:04,440 I kind of want to drive home. 285 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:08,320 And, you know, honestly, it's, 286 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:10,640 again, all this is easier said than done, right? 287 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:14,240 Nothing in life is free and nothing good 288 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:16,720 is ever going to come without a little hard work, right? 289 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:18,120 Sometimes a lot of hard work. 290 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:21,720 So let me go back to Subaru. 291 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,800 So in Subaru's case, you know, he's been self-loathing, 292 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:26,760 he's been living in his ass shadow, 293 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:29,240 doing everything he can to stand out, 294 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:31,160 even if it's not good stuff, right? 295 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:34,280 And again, like I said, all that really doesn't change 296 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:38,360 until he goes to, or he is brought to Lugunica, 297 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:43,000 which again is the town or main city of Re Zero. 298 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,360 It's where most of the stuff takes place. 299 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:49,800 And the people in Lugunica accept him for him, right? 300 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:53,120 They accept Subaru for Subaru because guess what? 301 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:53,960 They don't know his dad. 302 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,280 They don't even know who he is, right? 303 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:59,480 Until he shows up just randomly on one day. 304 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:04,240 And it's because they only see him. 305 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:07,960 He gets to be himself in full totality, 306 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:12,520 all the weak sorryness that he displays at times 307 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:16,360 to the brave, courageous courage that he displays 308 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:18,200 when the going gets tough. 309 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:22,040 And just to blame the honesty that he provides him, right? 310 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:24,360 I mean, Subaru, he just like, look, 311 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:26,120 he's a very objective outlook on life 312 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:28,040 and honestly, I can respect it. 313 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:32,960 And for, but there's two, yeah, yeah, I can say, yeah, 314 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:36,200 two main characters on there who just happen to be 315 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:39,520 the two main love interests for him are Rem and Amelia 316 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:42,080 who truly see him for him. 317 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:47,080 They allow him to open his eyes to who he was, right? 318 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:49,720 To realize that he's Subaru Natsuki. 319 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:50,880 He's not his dad. 320 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:53,040 He's not just his dad's kid, right? 321 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:54,600 He's his own person. 322 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,720 And for him, he didn't really realize that 323 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:01,600 until he got there, until they blatantly just told him, 324 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:05,600 you know, they fell in love with him because he's him. 325 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:07,760 He's Subaru. 326 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:09,880 No one else, they're not comparing to anybody else. 327 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:13,600 He's not, you know, whatever the case, 328 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:17,400 whatever you want to say, but he's just Subaru. 329 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:20,080 And I want to just bring that up and say, 330 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:23,280 who do we have to pull us out of our hole, right? 331 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:25,440 When we get into the hole of self-loathing, 332 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,000 when we get in our own heads and our own space 333 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,040 and just start really tearing ourselves down or start, 334 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:34,600 when we start comparing ourselves to other people, 335 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:38,120 who do we have, who do you have that can, you know, 336 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:40,320 knock some sense into you, give you a couple of slaps 337 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:42,200 and then hug you and say, you know what? 338 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:43,800 Nope, I just love you for you. 339 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:44,920 I don't want you to be you. 340 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:46,680 I don't want you to be anybody else. 341 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:50,360 And, you know, just give you, honestly, 342 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:51,640 that boost that you need, right? 343 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:53,280 Because we all need it, right? 344 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:56,520 Even the biggest, toughest, strongest person, 345 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:58,640 whether physically or mentally, 346 00:15:58,640 --> 00:15:59,720 they need a break. 347 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:00,680 They need help. 348 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:01,840 You know, we all need help. 349 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,360 They didn't get there just because of their own strength. 350 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:05,480 Somebody helped them along the way, 351 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:07,160 whether directly or not. 352 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:10,160 And it's important to have those type of people 353 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:13,760 close to you, you know, not just for in times of need, 354 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:14,840 when your need is on the line, 355 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,160 but really those are just genuine people 356 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:19,720 who are going to make your life better, right? 357 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:23,320 I mean, like I always say, life is hard. 358 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:25,600 Going through it is tough, it's difficult. 359 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:27,160 We got to learn how to navigate it. 360 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:30,000 You know, our parents, if you're blessed enough 361 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:31,200 to have your parents in your life 362 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,240 who guide you and show you to their best of their ability, 363 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:36,200 because one, they're not perfect. 364 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:38,360 Two, the world has changed since they were kids, right? 365 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:39,560 Not everything's the same. 366 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:41,640 So, but they're doing their best. 367 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:42,720 And then after a while, 368 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:44,920 you have to figure it out for yourself, right? 369 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:46,600 Take what you've learned and then move forward 370 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,520 and then you adapt to what the world is. 371 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,040 And then once you get out there, 372 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:55,840 that's where, you know, the community and village mindset 373 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:57,560 comes into play for reals when you have other 374 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:00,920 like-minded people who just come together 375 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:04,480 and, you know, just look out for each other, you know? 376 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:07,080 Flaws and all, they just see you for you. 377 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:12,080 And that's why I want you guys to really, 378 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:14,880 if you don't have that person, be that person first, 379 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:16,320 and then they'll come to you. 380 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:20,840 I truly believe that you are what you attract, right? 381 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:23,040 If you attract, if you find yourself surrounded 382 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:27,200 by negative people all the time, then the problem 383 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:28,760 might be you, in all honesty. 384 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:31,160 Maybe try to work on your own outlook 385 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,520 and find things that just bring joy and positivity 386 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:35,720 into your life, then naturally those people 387 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:37,440 are gonna start coming to you too. 388 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:40,600 So, like I said, again, to create who we want to be, 389 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:42,680 we must first face who we used to be 390 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:44,480 and accept who we are. 391 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:48,360 So, again, I'm not saying to ignore all the bad 392 00:17:48,360 --> 00:17:49,200 so that's happened. 393 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:51,680 I'm not saying to only focus on all the bad. 394 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:53,320 I'm not saying to focus on all the things 395 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:54,960 that we wish we hadn't done, 396 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:56,640 things that may have been done to us. 397 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:59,640 I'm not saying don't forget it. 398 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:04,640 I'm saying to forgive it and let it be in the past, right? 399 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:07,680 Because, again, like I always say, 400 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:10,320 I sound like a broken record on these episodes sometimes, 401 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:13,560 but just if you look in the past, 402 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:15,160 you're gonna stay in the past, right? 403 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:17,640 If you look too far into the future and start idolizing it, 404 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:19,840 you're never gonna be in the present. 405 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:21,800 You're never in the past, plan your present, 406 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:23,040 and then move towards your future. 407 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:24,320 That's pretty much it. 408 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:26,960 And then again, it all starts with you. 409 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:27,800 It starts with us. 410 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:28,640 It starts internally. 411 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:31,800 We have to put in the work to reap the rewards. 412 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:35,400 And for Subaru, he didn't really quite get that 413 00:18:36,360 --> 00:18:40,280 because, again, his power in Re Zero 414 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:42,840 is what he calls return by death. 415 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:44,440 And it does exactly what it sounds like. 416 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:48,440 When he dies, he returns to a previous save point 417 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:49,480 that he doesn't choose now. 418 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:50,320 It's random. 419 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:53,600 It's randomly set at whatever interval it's set at. 420 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:56,200 And then he basically gets a redo, 421 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:01,200 he gets a do-over from that point on. 422 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:05,400 And it was given to him by the Witch of Envy, 423 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:08,840 which we still don't know why she gave it to him 424 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:11,960 because she's infatuated with Subaru for some reason, 425 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:16,960 but she gave it to him as to keep him safe, right? 426 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:18,840 If he ends up dead for whatever reason, 427 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:22,040 she can just redo it so he's living. 428 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:24,840 But for instance, in Subaru's case, 429 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:28,840 he uses it to avoid disasters coming his way 430 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:30,200 and not just for his own sake, 431 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:32,720 but for the sake of the people around him, 432 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:34,320 which is very noble. 433 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:38,520 But the issue is that even though he has future knowledge, 434 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:41,040 he rarely uses it the first time around, 435 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:45,000 like even so they, excluding the first couple of loops 436 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,400 when he realized he had this power, right? 437 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:49,280 Again, you die and next thing you know, 438 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:52,680 you wake up like a day or a couple of hours before 439 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:53,880 you're not knowing what happened, right? 440 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:54,720 I get that. 441 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:56,320 But as the series goes on, 442 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,800 even when he first starts looping in a new loop, 443 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,360 he never really takes the knowledge 444 00:20:01,360 --> 00:20:04,560 of what he had going into the next loop. 445 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:07,600 He just still kind of flies by the seat of his pants. 446 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:11,840 And as a sidebar, as a viewer, it kind of annoys me, 447 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:13,600 but it's part of his charm, I guess. 448 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:18,600 But for our sakes, right, it just goes to show you 449 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,640 even if you could change that moment in time, 450 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:24,280 if you really could go back in the past 451 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:25,720 and make a different decision, 452 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:28,040 you know, the end result very well 453 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:30,480 still might be the same thing, right? 454 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,560 Because there's no guarantee that if we change 455 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:34,400 something about our past, something that we didn't like, 456 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:38,880 that we would rather not have happen, 457 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:41,840 it doesn't mean that the outcome 458 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:43,760 is gonna be any different. 459 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:45,440 It could be or it could not be. 460 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,120 I mean, I guess that's the beauty of the unknown, right? 461 00:20:48,120 --> 00:20:49,800 Because we don't know anything, 462 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:51,520 only God knows everything, right? 463 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:55,800 We just gotta move forward, we just gotta keep going. 464 00:20:55,800 --> 00:21:00,800 And honestly, the biggest kind of takeaway 465 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,560 I wanna take from this, because in Tsuru's case, 466 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:09,240 even though he knows pretty much what's going to happen, 467 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,600 he still lets his emotions get the best of him. 468 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,560 And it causes him to make some rash decisions, 469 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:16,920 which ends up with him dying again, 470 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:19,760 until he finally gets to write five or six loops 471 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:20,920 down the road. 472 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,200 But it just really goes to show that if we don't learn 473 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,640 from our experience and learn from our mistakes, 474 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:28,440 then we're gonna be doomed to repeat them, right? 475 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,760 We've all heard the cliche saying, 476 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:34,560 I know, I hear your boos, but there's some truth to it, 477 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:35,440 right, there's some truth. 478 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:38,720 If we don't learn, we're gonna do the same thing 479 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:42,000 over and over and over and over again. 480 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:45,920 It's kind of funny, because in my house, 481 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:47,400 we have a saying for people like that, 482 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:48,400 we call them habituals. 483 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:50,200 Like again, you're being habitual, 484 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:52,760 means you're doing the same thing over and over again 485 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:54,320 in getting the same result, 486 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:56,640 but you're still gonna try to do it anyway. 487 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:00,520 And it's always funny. 488 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,680 And because if we say to our dog about our dog, 489 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:05,400 meaning again, it's his instinct, 490 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,840 even though he gets the same discipline, 491 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:09,960 every time he does something he's not supposed to, 492 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:11,480 he's still gonna do it anyway. 493 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:13,920 And a lot of us go through life like that, right? 494 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:14,760 Just being habitual. 495 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:16,400 A lot of us just go through life, 496 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:20,200 even though it isn't a workout for me the last 1500 times, 497 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,640 I'm still gonna do the same, the exact same thing 498 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,520 and this time, this 1500th in one time 499 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:27,960 is gonna be the different one. 500 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:30,560 No, no, that's not the case. 501 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:32,480 That's not the case, man. 502 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:34,960 If you're doing the exact same thing over and over again, 503 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,800 expecting a different result, then you're insane. 504 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:42,800 And so instead of doing the same thing over and over again, 505 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:44,360 why not just tweak it a little bit? 506 00:22:44,360 --> 00:22:47,560 Why not try to improve upon it? 507 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:51,000 Whatever it is, whether it's a skill, task, relationships, 508 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:55,400 going to the gym, trying to look for a job, 509 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:57,760 whatever it is, whatever it is, you know what it is, 510 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:00,040 I don't know, but whatever it is 511 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:01,560 that you're trying to improve upon, 512 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:04,240 whatever it is that, or whatever opportunity 513 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:05,880 that you're trying to seek, 514 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,280 instead of looking to change opportunities in the past, 515 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:11,760 learn from those so you can create your own in the future. 516 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:13,600 Or better yet, just be ready 517 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:15,960 when those opportunities do come in the future 518 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,360 so that way you have the knowledge 519 00:23:18,360 --> 00:23:19,800 for how it turned out the first time 520 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:21,440 going into the second time. 521 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,040 So yeah, that's pretty much it. 522 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:25,400 So that's all I got for you guys today. 523 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,520 Just wanna thank you for tuning in to today's episode 524 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:29,560 and I pray that you got what you needed out of it 525 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:31,840 and that you learned something new about yourself. 526 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:33,640 And I mean, at this point, 527 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:35,200 you would think you know everything about yourself, 528 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,640 but you don't, trust me, you don't. 529 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,160 Feel free to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review. 530 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:42,480 I would love reading you guys' comments 531 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:44,720 and it helps me improve each and every episode. 532 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:46,720 And always remember, you are the main character 533 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:50,160 of your story and that story doesn't end until he says so. 534 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:51,480 All right, be blessed. 535 00:23:51,480 --> 00:24:06,480 And I'll see you guys next time.