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Being called to something great is a really daunting thing.

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You may not even know where to start or what success even looks like.

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Maybe you are so nervous that you actually decide to run away from your calling.

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But what if you decided to walk on your path to your purpose?

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Well in today's episode we are looking at the main character of Avatar the Last Airbender

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himself to see how his journey actually mimics ours.

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And that is Avatar Aang.

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What's going on guys my name is Nate and you are listening to the Otaku Liberation.

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A show where we help you break the chains that hold you back your life by connecting

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biblical principles with themes from your favorite anime.

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And without further ado let's get right on into it.

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So the verse I want to cover today that pretty much sums up this entire thing is Jeremiah

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chapter 1 verse 5.

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It says before I formed you in the womb I knew you.

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Before you were born I set you apart.

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I appointed you a prophet to the nations.

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And that doesn't describe how the Avatar is and I don't know what does.

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Because they are literally set apart and are appointed to actually not necessarily profit

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but to guide the world and the nations.

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And that still remains true for Avatar Aang himself.

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And Aang's journey is one is a tragic one let's be honest and two it's an interesting

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one for me looking at it because this is the oldest child I've ever seen.

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Yes he's even older than Grogu because Aang is technically 112 years old and if that sounds

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crazy to you then you need to go watch the show I'm not even going to explain it no I'm

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kidding.

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But Aang's whole journey from him learning he's the Avatar to the end of the series and

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even beyond into the comics and things that lead up to Korra which is the show after his

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death really just it really just depicts how I know how I would react especially at such

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a young age someone telling me that I'm responsible for the whole world and the lives of thousands

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if not millions of people and just and not only that just to know how to fight this crazy

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battle before I'm even ready it's mind-boggling for me in the way that he handled it parts

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of it is you know okay he's a monk so then his spirituality and things like that his

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thinking process is a little bit better than the average 12 year old but on the other side

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he's still 12 years old and he handles things like a 12 year old so it's kind of funny but

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it is really humanizing to see a character like that who's not just on one end crying

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complaining about it the whole time just say oh no why is this happening to me but on the

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other hand being so gung-ho about it and they're just the best at everything you know hangs

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very much in the middle and his whole journey is just it's a fun fun ride so Aang's journey

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kind of it comes as three three phases or stages however you want to you know describe

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it that I think very much mimics ours when God tells us of our purpose and the first

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stage is actually reluctance and it starts so I should start back when Aang was born

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so since since birth Aang is was a talented and a powerful bender even even I think even

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beyond just normal avatar standards think all of them have an innate talent but Aang

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they actually straight-up said he was a talented and powerful bender and the monks the monks

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that actually raised him they knew he was the avatar when he selected four relics from

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thousands of toys to play with which are known as the avatar relics that they're just passed

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between the nations and that the avatar themselves always pick because it's familiar to them

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and that's just kind of maybe said you know God knows the purpose of our of our life even

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before we are created this is our all this stuff is already set in motion way before

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we're even here and the same thing goes for the avatar and in these little relics right

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these these have already been established they're already here long before it was decided

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that Aang was gonna be the avatar he already knew the steps he needed to take and like

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I said before normally the avatar is told about their status around the age of 16 but

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due to the signs of the coming war the monks told Aang about his destiny and his purpose

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as the avatar when he was just 12 and his just think as 12 year old being told that

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again that you're responsible for the whole world it's crazy but oftentimes God will call

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on us not when we're ready but when we're needed and it may not even be in that moment

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but he wants us to start preparing and that just that piece right there just hits it's

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so home it's so home because you know even before I started doing you know this stuff

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with the podcast were really going in deep with my faith I was always into personal development

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and things like that and one thing I've always just read and heard is that you need to start

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before you're ready because you're never gonna be ready to start it is pretty much what the

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whole thing is and that's just true that's the fact of life in order to get somewhere

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in order to go further than where you are now you have to start before you're ready

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because think about it if like if my goal in life is to you know be a Hollywood actor

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be a millionaire or whatever the case may be the current version of me isn't that so

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if I'm if I'm just waiting until I become like that to start then it's just never gonna

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happen because that's not how I am right now that any type of change that you want to make

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it comes in a gradual pace but the key to that is you have to start nothing is gonna

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change unless you do and honestly just when I was when I was rewatching the show just

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reading up on Aang again for this episode and just understanding that yeah he was called

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to his purpose way before he was even ready you know not just from an age thing but like

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from a mentality standpoint he was not he was not feeling it and I just think how many

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times have I personally reacted like that when God's told me hey this is the next step

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I want you to take and I'm just like no we're not doing that I'm not feeling it right now

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and just to kind of put the thing in perspective it's just he does that on purpose God does

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that on purpose he wants us to be uncomfortable to really kind of go through it not in no

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not in a malicious way but because honestly friction and tension is what causes you to

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grow I mean that by a lot of this what happens just while you work out and you hurt yourself

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listening to big weights in your sore the days after the soreness is actually a sign

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that your muscles are growing and is the same thing spiritually we're spiritually sore when

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God calls us to something that we're not ready for but he says hey buckle up because it's

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coming and so Aang initially resists this idea that he's the avatar and instead he just

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wants to live a normal life I mean can you blame him this kid's 12 he's like I just want

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to hang out with my friends not save the world and honestly this even persists after he accepts

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his duties after he gets to the point where he is okay he acknowledges and accepts the

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fact that he's the avatar he still has the ultimate goal of just trying to live a normal

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life that he can you know as normal of a life as he can and which is which is hard and honestly

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I dare say impossible but hey we all we all want what we want and the Aang's resistance

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got to the point that he actually ran away he ran away from the from the air temple he's

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being raised at because he was so stressed out and confused as to why his life was changing

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so drastically and when God calls on us it's natural to want to run away when God calls

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on us to leave our comfort zones to leave what we've been knowing and to something greater

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or just better you may not see it as as greater or better in that moment we just see it as

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God you're disrupting my flow you know this is not this is not okay I don't like change

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and so it's natural for us to want to run away and we want to continue to be comfortable

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and to just stay content to where we are and that mean same thing with Aang but let me

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ask you this question because this is a question that came to me way back before I started

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this podcast way before I started the YouTube channel way before I even decided to do any

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of the stuff and it's how many lives would be affected if we ran away from what we're

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called to do let you sit with that for a minute how many lives will be affected if you decided

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to run away from what you were called to do and I'm not talking about saving the world

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from this crazy tyrant you know that was Aang's duty but for you what is it that you feel

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like God's spoken into your heart spoken what's that one thing that you have this crazy idea

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this crazy you know business or whatever that you say you feel in your heart that you need

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to do that you you want to use it's your passion what is it what is it and what would happen

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if you decided to not follow that how would your life look how would the lives of the

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countless people that you could have impacted look and in Aang's case it was literal death

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like if he continued to run away from his past his destiny as the avatar countless lives

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would have lost would have been lost like it just it would have been a wrap right and

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that's not or it's not accounted for the lives that were already lost because he ran away

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in the first place and so just kind of give you more context about Aang's running away

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he ran away he ran away from the air temple he's being raised at and it was during a storm

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a stormy day and the storm actually knocked him his bison Appa into the into the ocean

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and on that he was almost dead just then in that moment he was just it was almost a wrap

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and one reason why he didn't is because the avatars have this ability called the avatar

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state which is more or less fight or flight and it kicked on to preserve his life and

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what he did he froze himself in Appa and Appa into a giant block of ice and that's where

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they stayed for a hundred years so while the war was going on you know while his entire

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culture was essentially eradicated he was he was frozen and that's why it's called

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the avatar the last airbender because he's literally the last airbender and that's just

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that and then that's just a consequence of him running away from his destiny now we don't

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know how it would have worked out if he would have stayed and trained he he to be fair he

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probably just would have died with the rest of them because he wasn't ready but but we

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we never know that we'll never know that so that was just the initial stage of Aang's

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journey the reluctance so the next stage is actually the growth or just growing into your

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purpose so after Aang wakes up from the iceberg you know with Katara and Sokka and they begin

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their journey so he can master the the four elements Aang has to overcome many challenges

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that ultimately make him a better person and a better avatar and some of the first challenges

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were actually initially learning the other elements so when Aang was frozen he was already

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a master airbender because in the Air Nomad culture well once you become a master airbender

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you get these tattoos and you've seen any of the even you haven't watched the show I'm

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sure you've seen many posters things like that he has his tattoos so at 12 years old

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he's mastered airbending and so now he just needs to master the other elements to become

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a fully realized avatar so he's ready to take on you know the Fire Lord things like that

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but each of the other elements he has this initial resistance to a degree and with fire

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he accidentally burns or you know his friend and love interests and that causes he see

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the fear to be planted in his heart where he's just afraid to firebending he just refuses

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to do it for the majority of the series with water water wasn't really a real issue for

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him to learn and that you get the hang of quickly but he didn't take his training seriously

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which caused his his learning to stagnate whereas when him and Katara they actually

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started off learning at about the same pace and actually at the beginning he was a better

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waterbender than her he started to fall behind because he just didn't take it seriously he

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was always goofing off when he should have been training and then lastly was earth where

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he actually has a mental block because the way the it works with the avatars since again

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their own once they can learn all four elements they the element that has that is the natural

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opposite to that avatar's personality is the one that's the hardest for them to learn

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in any case he's an air nomad they're taught to be free and you know always redirect things

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like that whereas the earth is like no you stand your ground and you take things head

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on which is complete opposite of everything he's ever learned so it gave him some difficulties

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another another dilemma he had was deciding on how he should end the war being should

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he kill Ozai which is what everyone else me me included as the viewer were saying yeah

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just kill him like you just be done with it or not because the monks always told me that

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all life is sacred and you know you shouldn't just kill somebody just because you have a

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difference in opinion which I will say that is true but Ozai was literally slaughtering

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hundreds of people so I am you know whatever and and lastly I guess like I touched on before

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was he was torn between his personal desires such as living a normal life and his actual

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duty as the avatar which is ending ending the war and saving the entire world and each

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of these obstacles challenged a in a way that forced him to grow forcing the wrong ways

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that he wouldn't have if he never went on this journey in the first place and the way

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it's tied back to us is that when we're going on a journey especially one where we've been

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called to a higher purpose to our actual calling we're going to face things that our current

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selves cannot handle at all but go through these things so that we'll be prepared when

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we step into all the things that God has for us so the things you're going through in this

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season is preparing you for the next season and then things go through in that season

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it's gonna pray for the season after that and so on and so forth but they're all just

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always gonna be challenges that's just a part of living part of being alive here and some

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are gonna be easier to get through than others some are gonna be like ain't learning water

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bending whereas like it's only hard because you're making it hard because you're not taking

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the time to actually do what you need to do and some can just be like him learning earth

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it's just so naturally your opposite that you are you don't even want to attempt it

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you don't even want to try it and every time you do it's just super difficult but you have

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to all right I mean that's that's it that's it you have to we have to go through these

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things because again God's prepared for something for us on the other side but our current sales

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can't can't handle it so we have to go through this process this you know this this type

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of pressure right and I say you know diamonds and diamonds are made with a lot of pressure

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and a lot of heat and I don't know about you but that sounds very uncomfortable and essentially

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that's that's what it is and but the beauty of this whole thing about the journeys that

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we go on is that you don't have to do it alone because Aang didn't do it alone he had what

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they call you know the team avatar and and all the other allies that they've made along

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the journey Aang was able to face his destiny with that much more confidence knowing that

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he has people who are by his side who are willing to to help him in any way they can

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whether that's fighting fighting directly training him or just just being just having

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words of encouragement sometimes just having someone say you got this can make or break

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your day and that's all you need to get on get over the get over the hump so surround

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yourself with some trustworthy people who cheer you on who can lift you up when you're

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running on empty and who can keep you focused when you start to slack off I think that's

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probably the main thing at least for me is just sometimes it's like I don't want to do

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this today and I gotta kick myself in the butt but if you can find someone who can do

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it for you by all means keep them close and the last stage or phase of this journey Aang

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goes on so again he went from being reluctant to growing in his journey to now he's finally

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just accepted it acceptance accepting what it means to be the avatar and what his own

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and what his duty means to the world so again that didn't really come full circle until

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it was towards the ends of the series Aang finally comes to his own as a yes yes you

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can say he was a full-fledged avatar you know I'm not gonna get into all the nerd details

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about it but either way he he's a fully realized avatar he no longer runs away from his duties

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and he actually takes it seriously enough to get the job done while he's still able

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to actually enjoy his life and after he ends the war he still has avatar duties to do you

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know again keep to keep the peace that he fought so established in the first place to

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make sure the nations are all getting along together and then basically what happened

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for the hundred last hundred years doesn't happen again but now he's able to actually

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enjoy his life enjoy the fruits of his labor and actually not be so stressed and overworked

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all the time that's something I personally strive for is being able to live out my purpose

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while still enjoying my life and it that's gonna come at some point because I know right

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now when we're following our purpose in the beginning it's gonna be a lot of grinding

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a lot of late nights early mornings a lot of time where you just giving up you know

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party time on the weekend or for more my case video games and watching anime for recreation

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is giving up those things in the front so you can get you can actually enjoy yourself

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right needs to get to the other side where you're you're established you don't have

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to grind as much or as hard I mean you still grinding still the stuff done that you need

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to get done but you can actually take the time to enjoy that's what I'm that's what

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I'm going towards that's what I'm trying to get to and it is coming I know it's gonna

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be little by little step by step and that's true for all of us right so if you feel like

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you're just you being your head against the wall right now it's okay okay take a take

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a moment take a breathe make sure you don't go insane cuz it kind of feeds the purpose

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that guy has for us if we lose our minds on the way to trying to fulfill that purpose

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right so he understands take a breathe you know breathe with me just we're all good everything's

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okay nothing the world's not gonna end you know you don't have to fight the fire lord

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it's okay but seriously when you get to that point where you can just have peace you know

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right because honestly fulfilling your purpose just brings a peace then that can't be understood

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it it when people they do what they love because it doesn't feel like work to them that's true

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yeah that doesn't mean you don't have to take breaks every once in a while but while you're

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doing these things it doesn't feel like you know it's not a drag you don't you're not

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oh I gotta do it oh I gotta report record this podcast that oh I gotta film a YouTube

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video later you know for me doesn't that's not how I'm feeling it's like okay I get to

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do this you know eventually this is gonna change someone's life down the road and just

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because I was being obedient and ultimately once we're walking in our purpose once we

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come to accept our purpose it leads to a confidence in yourself because you have confidence in

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the one who made you because once you once we know what our purpose is once we finally

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accept the purpose and stop running away and you know trying to hide from God essentially

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once we once we just we know we dig our heels in and say okay Lord following you this is

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what we're gonna do and it brings that peace but it brings that confidence because you

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know you can't really fail at this because God made you for this it's literally impossible

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for you to fail but you have to be willing to put in the work and put in the time and

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put in the effort that's the only caveat you said gotta be willing to do it it's all gonna

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work out but you have to do it you have to do it you know you're right like you're saying

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don't don't don't have me as I don't just put half the energy into it don't just pretend

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to do it but actually go go all in and the rest is history so that's all I got for you

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guys today if you like what you heard and you want to take a deeper look at today's

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episode head on over to the otaku liberation net where you'll find a blog article that

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covers today's episode in a little more detail and don't forget to come back next week because

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we're gonna look at someone who funny enough was deemed as the mother and protector of

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the whole group and was actually one of my favorite character for a long time and that

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person is Katara all right guys always remember you are the main character of your story and

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that story doesn't end until he said so all right people