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In today's world, we're always told to just be ourselves.

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But when we are ourselves, we're deemed as either weird, creepy, or even strange.

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And let's be honest, we're all a little weird.

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So how can we truly be ourselves when we're trying to be normal?

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Well, on today's episode, we're taking a look at a character who struggles with that

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very idea of what it means to be special and what exactly makes you special.

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And that character is the main character of Mob Psycho 100, Shigeo Kageyama.

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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, a show where we help you

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break the chains that are holding you back in your life by connecting some biblical principles

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with themes for your favorite anime.

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And without further ado, let me get right on into it.

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So Shigeo Kageyama or Mob, as most, pretty much everybody in the series calls him.

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And from here on out, I'm going to say Shigeo or Mob pretty interchangeably and just know

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that it's the same character.

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Mob is a very interesting, interesting character and he's not the typical, you know, prepubescent

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main male character who's always crying and just whining about either having the powers,

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not having the powers, having to defeat the anime, whatever the case is.

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And you watch enough anime, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

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Mob is the almost exact opposite of it in the sense that he doesn't really have much

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emotions.

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And for a reason I'm going to get into it because he chose to essentially seal them

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off, right?

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And to hold himself back, which inevitably holds back what other people seem to think

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makes him special.

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And throughout the whole series, the whole series is about Mob's growth and how he goes

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from viewing his psychic powers as a burden and as a possible liability to fully accepting

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them as a part of him and in everything that comes with it.

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And to really understand, I'm going to break down Shigeo's journey or aspects of himself

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in a couple of points.

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Before I get into that, for today's verse is going to be Ephesians chapter four verse

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Then we will no longer be little children tossed by the waves and blown around by every

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wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness and the techniques of deceit.

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So we have to look at it as once we come to realize again whose we are, right?

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Because we're gods, we were made in his image, we were made for a purpose.

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And once you not just know that but truly believe that, then we're not going to be defined

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by what other people say we are, right?

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But you're not going to be who other people say we are.

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I'm not talking about people who truly care about you, who want to speak goodness over

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your life and speak good things for you.

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But what I'm saying is you're not taking everything everyone says to heart.

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If somebody says you're ugly, don't just believe that you're ugly just because somebody decided

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to be mean.

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We have to learn how to filter those things.

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And we filter it through God's lens and not our earthly lens because again, we're all

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flawed, right?

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I don't see how somebody else who's just as flawed as I am in whatever aspect is going

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to judge me for what I've done, right?

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For who I am.

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That doesn't make any sense and I'm just not going to deal with it.

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So that's the main point I want you guys to kind of get out of that and kind of as a jumping

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off point for the first point.

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So Shigeo, or Ma, he has a sense of selflessness and a very forgiving heart.

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And he constantly forgives his opponents and even tormentors.

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I'm talking Keiji, Toruki, even his little brother Ritsu at one point tried to be his

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enemy and every time Ma decided that, hey, you know, it's okay.

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No matter what they're doing to me, it doesn't matter.

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I'm still going to forgive them anyway.

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And you know, because we're always told to turn the other cheek when wrong is done to

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us or to our loved ones.

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But this is a much, much, much more difficult task than we realize, or at least what I realize.

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Because I know I have a tendency to get angry relatively quickly.

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I like to think I've calmed down or mellowed out more over the years, but I was always

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quick to just to take it there, especially if someone does something to somebody that

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I care about.

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And I know a lot of people can relate to that, right?

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Somebody somebody messes with you is one thing, but when they start bringing in a little sis,

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a little bro, you know, mom or dad, your best friend, then it turns it turns the switch,

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if you know what I mean.

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But looking at mob mob, all always, which every time takes the high road and decides

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to not to not retaliate, to not give in to the very human nature of, you know, lashing

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back.

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But I have to add, but the one question I have to ask when I was watching this and the

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question I'm opposed to you is how much is too much?

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When do you go from being meek, you know, kind meek to gullible like mob?

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Because mob took this point to the extreme, to the fact that he would just listen to anything

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Reagan said and Reagan is a con man at heart.

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And mob would just take everything that everyone said to him at face value, which is not the

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right approach because again, we're all flawed human beings and some people, they just they

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just do wrong because they want to do wrong.

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And back to the whole filter filter through God's lens, right?

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We have to be able to see people for who they are, not what we want them to be.

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And in mob's case, he always saw people for what he believed they could be.

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Which again, that's not a bad thing.

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I don't want you to think that seeing people for the potential or seeing the potential

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you and other people and wanting the best for them and believing the best for them,

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that's not a bad thing.

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But at the end of the day, we have to be able to see the truth of what it is right now in

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this current moment.

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Because just just because they have the potential for great good doesn't mean they don't have

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the potential for great bad either.

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So we have to be able to see and discern that and not just within other people, also within

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ourselves.

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It's kind of part of that kind of old self-reflection is just being able to to push yourself through

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that filter.

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And honestly, from from mob, even though this was it was a little too much on the goody

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goody side, it lets him go global, it does showcase his ability to just recognize the

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impact of forgiveness on his own well-being and the importance of letting go of negative

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emotions.

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And again, part of this ties back into the whole incident with with Ritsu back when they

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were younger.

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So the whole reason why mob decided to hold back his power, hold back his emotions is

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because one day when they were younger, I mean, like much, much younger, Ritsu was getting

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picked on by these just neighborhood bullies.

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And mob stepped in to try to protect him as a as a older sibling should.

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And the bullies turned and they they essentially just bulled him.

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They started bullying both of them.

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Well mob at the time let his emotions run high, run to the 100 percent.

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And he his powers went out of control.

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He ended up injuring pretty much everybody there, including Ritsu.

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And that moment scarred him so deeply that he vowed he would never use his powers like

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that again.

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And whether intentionally or unintentionally, he essentially turned off his emotions and

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in doing so, he opened him up to these all these other problems that the later going

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to plague him later on.

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But throughout the story, he does learn to forgive himself for what happened and recognize

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that, OK, these powers are a part of me.

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What happened happened.

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But Ritsu is OK.

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He is, you know, eventually reconciled and Ritsu's even moved past that incident as well.

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But the biggest thing for mob was just letting go of the guilt of just feeling responsible.

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And I know that's something that's hard for us to do is to let ourselves off the hook

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for something that we've done or something that we we see as bad.

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I mean, other people may not see it as bad or see it as an as an issue.

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But to us is a very it can be a very big issue.

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And we since if we hold ourselves to too high of a standard, you know, we're trying to reach

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for a God level perfection, even though we're just as flawed as everybody else, then the

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disappointments feel that much worse, right?

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They feel that much more intense and it can lead us to making rash decisions such as turning

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off your emotions if that's even possible or, you know, things like that.

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So the biggest point I want you guys to get out of this is just being able to let go of

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your negative emotions.

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I mean, feel them, they're going to come.

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You can't stop it, but don't hold on to them and don't ignore them either.

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We just let them go, process them as you need to.

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And then and then just move on.

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Just move on.

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So the next point, a point of growth for mob is the recognition of the joys in the world.

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So oh, man, even after being tormented for six months in a dream world, Ma was able to

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see the good in it, the good in it.

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And put put in the perspective.

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Right.

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So Ma went against his evil spirit named Keiji, who is probably the strongest evil spirit we

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see in the entire series.

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And I was trying to stop him from possessing this girl or to get him out of the girl he's

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already possessing.

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And in order to do that, mob basically released his own spirit to go inside inside the little

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girl's body so him and Keiji can battle it out real Shonen anime style.

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But while he was in there, again, his goal of when it's got the best of him and Keiji

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was able to trap him in there.

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And for six months inside the dream world, it was only like maybe a couple of minutes

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in the real the real world.

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But inside the mind of mob, it was six months.

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And I mean, Keiji took away everything that mob had he had in the real world.

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He took away his friend and mentor and Reagan.

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He took away his his little brother's, you know, the relationship he had with Ritsu took

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away, you know, dimples guidance.

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He took away all the things that mob had in the current life in his current life and just

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made his life completely and utterly miserable.

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I mean, I'm being bullied every day to the point either he mobly to commit suicide or

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commit genocide.

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And what is there?

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There was no in between.

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He was at that point.

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But even after all of that, even after, you know, dimple came in, broke him out of that.

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At the end of the day, mob really showed just the utmost gratitude for what he did have.

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I mean, he became more grateful and appreciative for what he has in the real world.

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And that spoke volumes to me because in the world like ours right now, that's getting

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darker and more chaotic by the minute is just really important that we take the time to

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cherish what we have while we have it.

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And I'm not talking about things.

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I'm talking about just the people around us and even even the opportunities that present

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themselves.

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You know, just having fresh water to drink, right?

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A roof over your head, working AC.

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I mean, I live in Florida, so working AC is a very, very, very important thing.

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And it's a blessing.

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Again, just being able to have just be thankful for what you have, even if it doesn't seem

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like it's a lot, right?

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Because in a world or in a culture where it's just so go, go, go more and more and more,

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we lose sight of the things that we've prayed about, the things that we've asked for, the

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things that we worked hard for.

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And once we get it, we lose sight of, you know, just of appreciate it, of appreciating

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it.

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Because as soon as we get it, we're looking for the next big thing or the next thing after

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that or the next thrill or the next dopamine hit.

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And I've been guilty of it.

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Again, I'm getting better with it.

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Still struggle sometimes with the whole shiny object syndrome.

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But it's just against all this whole thing is about just taking a step by step little

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by little and just really just taking a moment to stop, you know, breathe and just take stock

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of what you have and just be just be thankful.

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Just be thankful and grateful.

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And just I really want you guys to get that really, really, really do just to because

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you can only appreciate people.

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While they're here, you don't we don't want to recognize the value that they had in your

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life after they're gone because at that point it's too late.

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The only thing you're left with are memories.

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So while they're still here, I used to have the opportunity to physically talk to them,

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just be around them as much as you can and just enjoy each other's company.

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Let's enjoy each other more.

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All right.

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And again, again, this message is for me just as much as it is for you guys.

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Just be more intentional with the people around you and be more appreciative of the things

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and opportunities that you have.

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And in mom's case, it really shows again, highlights his ability to appreciate the positives

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in life and honestly demonstrates his his own growth because he's able to recognize

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the value of cherishing what he has rather than focusing solely on the hardships.

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And we then say solely because again, hardships are going to come.

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We're going to we're going to focus on them because nobody likes pain.

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Nobody likes being uncomfortable.

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But it's not that's not the end of the world.

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Right.

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It's not the end of the day.

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We have so much more to look forward to than than the dark season that we're going through

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now.

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And the last kind of growth point on go go over for mob is he understood basically you

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are more than what makes you special.

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And in mob's case, he strongly believes that having psychic powers doesn't make you all

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that special when it's the only thing that you have.

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And that's the key part.

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When when the only thing that you can identify with, the only thing that you give stock to

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is what makes you special or makes you, I guess, different.

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If it's just one singular thing, if that's all you have, then you pretty much have nothing.

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Right.

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And here's a joke all the time when you say somebody's personality is being six to and

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it's funny.

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But this is essentially what this point is illustrating.

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If you if you only have stock and being six foot two and you have nothing else of value,

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nothing else you can say, you know, well, I've done this or I've done that.

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I, you know, I can do these other things as well.

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If you can't say that and only you have is being six to like it's just it.

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Oh, you see what I'm going with is it doesn't really click.

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It's not that appealing.

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It's just just weird.

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But for again, back to mob.

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So mob had a low opinion of himself in the very beginning of the series due to him lacking

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in every other aspect of life.

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And when I say that, I did literally he was not physically able to do anything at the

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very beginning of the series.

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He couldn't even run more, I'd say maybe half a mile before collapsing from exhaustion.

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He wasn't the best in school.

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I mean, he wasn't dumb, but he was towards the bottom of the class.

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He wasn't and he just wasn't really good at anything else besides his psychic powers.

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And even then he didn't want to use them in his everyday life because he didn't want to

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be defined by just having psychic powers.

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And in very contrast, his brother Ritsu excelled at pretty much everything else that mob didn't.

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And he was a good athlete, he was a star student, he was on the student council, things like

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that.

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And mob commended his brother on all of his achievements because again, Ritsu has everything

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that all blacks.

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But even even in the midst of mob devaluing himself in the face, you know, when comparing

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himself to his brother Ritsu, mob was able to recognize that, you know, personality,

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character and other qualities hold significant as well as well as your own special ability,

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as your own gifts and talents that God's blessed you with, right?

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It's the combination of everything else that truly makes you special, not just the gifts

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and talents that God gave you.

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Because I don't know if you realize this, your gift of or a talent of drawing or being

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athletic and being able to sing, whatever it is, you're not the only one with that

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gift, right?

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Like you're not.

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I mean, God's given a gift to plenty of other people before and he's going to give it to

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a plenty of other people after it, after us.

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And what truly makes you special, because again, that's not the gift, the gift itself

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isn't special by itself.

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But what truly makes special is you and everything that encompasses you again, your personality,

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your character, your, you know, your gifts, your talents, your flaws, your shortcomings,

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your blessing, all these things, your life is what makes you special because there's

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no, there's only ever going to be one you, right?

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There's going to be plenty of other singers, plenty of our other artists, plenty of other

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athletes, but there's only ever going to be one you, there's only ever going to be one

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me.

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And that is what makes us special.

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Not the talents that we have, not the gifts that we've been blessed with, but encompassing

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everything is what makes us special.

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So again, I just want you to really kind of drill that in because again, since everyone

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in the world is special in their own way, that kind of means that no one is special,

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right?

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If you're just looking at it from this specific lens of, you know, everyone has a special

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talent so nobody's really special, but we all are, we're all very unique and that's

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okay.

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I mean, really it's okay.

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Just don't let your gift make or break you and just really take the time to get to know

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yourself more because know yourself more deeply and more intimately than even what you think

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now.

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So in summary, you know, mob's recognition of joys and in challenging situations, it

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helps reflect his own growth and finding gratitude and cherishing what he has.

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And it's also, and it's also his understanding of what personal worth is.

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Basically, it goes beyond just your gifts, your special abilities.

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It highlights his sense of self-awareness because he values character and individuality

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and personality above just his psychic powers.

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And honestly, these are things that I think we should all strive to look for in ourselves

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and to help us grow and to be more well-rounded people.

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So again, thank you guys for tuning in to today's episode.

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I pray that you got what you needed out of it and hopefully you learned something new

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about yourself.

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And if you like what you heard today and want to take a deeper look in today's episode,

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then head on over to the otakuliberation.net where you'll find a blog article that covers

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today's episode in a little more detail.

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And come back next week as we're looking at basically a sibling rivalry gone wrong, where

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we'll be looking at mob's little brother Ritsu and how striving for someone else's

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gift leaves you blind to your own.

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And before you go, always remember, you are the main character of your story and that

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story doesn't end until he says so.

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Alright, be blessed.