Have you ever felt like you've been called to do more with your life? Or maybe on the other end,
you thought, I don't have to worry about anything because someone else is going to handle it.
You know, I don't have to be great because someone else is greater. I don't have to give
because someone else is going to give. I don't have to fight because someone else is going to fight.
Or maybe you feel like, okay, I do need to fight, but I don't know how. I don't even know where to
begin. And today we're going to take a look at really both scenarios where you want to,
you don't know how. And for those of us who don't feel like we need to because someone else is.
And for this episode, it's going to be a little different, a little special because I'm going over
two characters who exhibit both aspects of this and how it ties into essentially untapped potential.
And I'm talking about Gohan and Broly.
Hey, what's going on guys? My name is Nate and you're listening to the Otaku Liberation,
a show where we help you break free from the chains that will hold you back in your life
by connecting some biblical principles for themes from your favorite anime.
Enough of that to do, let's get into it. So I'm going to start off with Gohan because he's a little more
established in the series. And for those of you who don't know about Gohan in Dragon Ball,
it's been said multiple times in the series itself, as well as by fans and even the writers that
Gohan has the most potential. He has the potential to be the strongest character
in the entire series, even stronger than Goku, who we all know is the current
pretty much strongest in all honesty. I don't count Beerus and all of them later on, but
Gohan has the potential to be stronger than anyone that we've ever seen. And he's kind of
shown it a couple of times throughout the series where if he puts his mind to it, if he really
gets pushed into a corner and he has to rise to the occasion, he does in Bensong. Back in the early
episode of Dragon Ball Z, against Raditz, Gohan was captured as part of Raditz's plan to bring
Goku there so they could fight. Gohan got mad enough that Raditz was beating up his dad that he
came out in almost one shot at Raditz himself. Fast forward to when Gohan fought Cell, same,
same thing. He got pushed to a point that he was beyond his comfort zone, beyond what he thought
he was willing to go. He had to tap into that level of strength that he honestly didn't even
know was inside of him. And then again with Buu and then later on in the Super and things like
that. So Gohan has a very similar pattern. He's the same pattern each and every time. He doesn't
live up to his potential until he's forced to. He doesn't take into account his own strength.
And there's really three main points I want to go over for this analysis of Gohan. And the first is
his reluctance. So you know what I mean by that? So again, to get an idea of that, we got to look
at Sans as a whole, right? Because Gohan is half. He's half human, half Sans. And Sans as a whole,
they are a warrior race who live, breathe, and die fighting. That's what they do. That's all they
want to do and that's just them. That's what the whole shtick of the species is. And in the case of
in the case of hybrids, that's not as prominent, or what's the word, it's not as prominent area
in the hybrids than it is in their full-blooded Sans parents, right? And Gohan's even more special
cases where he really doesn't like fighting at all. And part of that is just from his past battles,
you know, influences his outlook on fighting. Because Gohan, he's been fighting since he was
like five years old, like early on until you guys and the Raditz came. I believe Gohan was like five,
four or five at the time. And since that moment, since that day, up until where we are now,
Gohan's in his like 20s. He's been fighting and not just, you know, you know, running the mill,
you know, backyard brawls or whatnot. You know, he's fighting beings that can destroy the Earth,
destroy the universe at times. And it's up to him and then the rest of the cast to put a stop to it.
And because of that, as he's gotten older, he realized how much he actually hates fighting.
You know, he doesn't like it. He doesn't want to do it at all. Regardless of the fact that he's
good at it, he's gifted at it, no less. I mean, again, like I already said, he has the potential
to be even better than his dad who is considered the goat, right? And what the way you look at it
is, is again, back to the whole thing of our past traumas, where something happened in our past
that whether we could control or that we couldn't control, but something happened and it traumatizes
so deeply that it's keeping us from moving forward. It's keeping us from really living.
And sometimes it's not as obvious as you want to think, you know, some traumatic experiences
has a safety mechanism. Our brain is just actually just shut it off. Like we can't recall it
as vividly as we can some other type of memories, right? And so you may not even be aware of
what quote unquote traumatized you, what is holding you down, holding you back, right?
I mean, it could be something that you didn't even do. It could be something that your parents did,
right? Whether to you or for you, because they thought it was the best decision at the time,
but it turned out it wasn't, right? I mean, they're human too. They make mistakes just like the rest
of us and always get it right. And unfortunately, sometimes that means it's detrimental to the child.
And so it could be anything like that. It can be anything. It could be you, you know, you
know, you decided to go off on your own. I mean, it's maybe start a business or you want to,
you move out to your parents' house sooner than, honestly, than you were ready to, but you just
decided this is it. I don't want to be here anymore. I'm gone. And it didn't work out,
right? Because life happens. We have our failures. And I mean, sometimes we have our setbacks
and they can really do a number on your mentality if A, you're not used to it because you're not
used to going out and trying different things. You're not used to really putting yourself out
there. So when the losses do come, they hit harder because, you know, you're not calloused to it.
You're not used to it. Just like with anything else we do in life, whether it's a sport, whether
it's lifting, it's a, it's a, it's a certain skill, you know, the more you practice it, the better
you're going to get at it. And the less often, less frequent that the failures are going to come
and the less impactful that are going to be when they do come because you're used to it at that
point. You're like, okay, I know what this is, or at least I have an idea of what this is,
what it feels like. So now I can not have to worry about it as much, you know, take what I can learn
from it and then we can go forward. Now, again, for certain things, it's easier said than done.
Some things are very, very intense, for lack of a better word. And, and, and those are the type
of things that we can't move on from by ourselves, right? That's where a community comes in or,
and it can just be one person, right? It can just be one person. Cause I'm very much a person,
type of person who only has, you know, two to three really, really, really good friends at a time.
You know, I'm not the one who says I'm friends with everybody because I'm not,
I'm just being honest, I'm not, I'm, I'm quite have a lot of acquaintances, you know, from school and
work and what have you. And yeah, sure. You know, they're cool people. I like to think I'm cool and
cordial towards them too, but I wouldn't consider them friends, you know, just friendly. And,
but I do have a couple of friends who are more like family to me, right? Who I know I can go to
them for pretty much anything. And then vice versa. And then we just have each other's back like that.
That's what I'm talking about. You need to have someone who, who can help you get past the dark
and troubling times. The ones that are in the present and the ones that are in your past.
And again, it really just comes down to you digging deep and seeing how you can move past,
move past the, the trauma, the chains, the things that are tying you down, right? Because again,
you're never, we're never going to move forward. The world is the world is working. Keep on spending
a time to move forward, but you're not, and you're going to get left behind and then wonder,
you know, wake up one day and just wonder, man, what happened? What did I do with my life?
You know, I don't, I don't want you, I don't want you to, to have to ask that question. I want you
to, to open up your eyes one day and just be like, you know what? I did it. I did that thing,
whatever, whatever it is, whatever, you know, goal or scenario that you're trying to do,
you're trying to have, you know, the life, the life that you want to live. I want you to,
on your deathbed, just be at peace knowing that you did what you set out to do. And
honestly, the first step of that is to, is knowing how to let go of the past so you can move forward.
Right. And for Gohan, it was, it was, it wasn't, it wasn't so much a straight shot, right, from
letting go of his reluctance of fighting and, you know, his hatred for battle or, you know,
or dislike, I can't really say hatred, it's dislike for fighting, right? Because he went from being
reluctant to next thing being complacent. He became very complacent later on in the series,
because again, how Goku and Vegeta have kept leveling up over time to this point. Now,
they're two of the strongest fighters in the series, right? There's not a lot of things that
could handle one of them, let alone both of them when they're fighting together, right? So in Gohan's
mind, he feels like he doesn't have to train because Goku and Vegeta are going to take care
of everything, right? He doesn't have to do anything because someone else is going to swoop
in and save the day, right? And that's a, that's a very slippery slope for a lot of us, because
if you're, if you spend so much time waiting for somebody else to come save the day, then the day
is never going to get saved, right? Because what if, what if the person you're waiting on is waiting
on you, right? Think about that. What if you're that hero that someone else is waiting on, but you,
you decide to sit back, put your hands up and say, oh, it's not my problem. Someone else, someone
else has it, right? And, and again, you just lose it now. So many people are losing out because
whether you're afraid or you're complacent, but either would, the end result is you're not,
you're not putting yourself out there. You're not challenging yourself to, to level up, to
really tap into that potential that you have inside you. And then you just, you just figure
someone else would do some things that you don't have to. I mean, it's, one, it's selfish, right?
And honestly, it's selfish. And I can speak on these things because I, I've personally gone
through that a couple of times in my life. I'm, I'm, I'm more of the type of person who likes to be
in the back and kind of observe and watch how things unfold. I'm not really wanting to quickly
jump ahead of things or jump in front of things saying, yep, I'll do it. And I was like that,
honestly, the majority of my life going through school and stuff like that. It really wasn't
until I started working like out in the real world with a real job that it kind of shifted.
I know I like it, it helped it happened a little bit. And towards the end of my college too,
with a bunch of group projects with people who, you know, we've all been there in group projects,
not everyone does their part. And sometimes you end up doing the whole group project by yourself,
right? And that's no, but I mean, that's an excellent example of those who don't do
their part of the assignment. They're part of the group. They're the ones who are complacent to say
someone else is going to do it. Whether or not the group fails or not, they don't, they don't,
they don't really care until the due date is the next day. And then everyone's looking around like,
I thought you were doing something. No, I thought you were, I thought you were. And no one took that
first step. No one took hold of the reins and said, look, this is what we're going to do.
This is the part I'm doing, this is the part you're doing. No one wanted to step into that
leadership role and now you're all going to suffer. It's the same thing with life and beyond just our
own personal lives, right? If no one is willing to take on the burden and the responsibility of
being a leader, of being a trend center, being a trailblazer, whatever you want to call it,
of being the first or being the next, right? It doesn't have to be the first. You can be the next.
If no one is willing to do that, then, then we're just doomed.
No, honestly, man, we are, we are screwed. We are screwed for real. And, and I just, I really want
you guys to really sit, sit back and think about it. You know, I don't want you to be someone who
just sits on the sideline forever, because at some point you got to get in the game. I'm sorry. You,
you have to, you have to get in. Just like Gohan. He, he doesn't have the luxury of sitting on a
sideline every time, you know, just because Goku and Vegeta are around doesn't mean he, he doesn't
need to do his due diligence to stay in shape, to stay in fighting shape, to be ready if he, if he
needs to be called upon. Case of point is the last Ark in Super is the Tournament of Power or the
superhero movie, which, you know, it centered around Gohan and Piccolo that, I mean, in case of
point, in the movie, Goku and Vegeta were off world, so they couldn't, they couldn't get back
to earth in time to deal with the threat. So it was up to Piccolo and Gohan, who were the strongest
ones left on earth to, you know, stop, stop the villains. And it wasn't until the end of the movie
that Gohan finally, you know, decided to take his nose out of the book and do something about it.
Right. Despite Piccolo trying to warn him multiple times, but prior to the movie. But, but again,
so once you get past your complacency stage, next is your acceptance, is the acceptance.
And Gohan decided again to come out of quote unquote retirement, his retirement from martial
art days to essentially defend the world because he's the only one who could do it. He's the only
one that could. And not sure Piccolo was there, he was doing his best, but at the end of the day,
Gohan is one, stronger than him. And, you know, two, Gohan is the only one who could really put the
final nail in the coffin. And what that means for us is that we finally come to a point where we
accept our gift and our responsibility to use that gift correctly. So once you come to terms with
really who you are, what you're good at, what your gifts are, you know, once you took the time,
you discovered your weapon, right? Those who listened to season one talking about Blue Lock,
you found your weapon, you found your talent, you honed it, you mastered it to the pinnacle
of what you think you can use it at the current time, right? And now it's all about execution,
right? You're going to execute and do whatever it is that you call it to do. I don't know what
you're calling the life is. And you may not even know, that's where prayer comes in, right? But
at the end of the day, it comes down to your choice, right? All of our choice. We have to choose
to, we have to choose to move. And honestly, as crazy as that sounds, we have to choose to move
with purpose, to move in our purpose. And we can't sit on the sidelines forever.
Just begging someone else to come save us, to come save the day. And we can't, we can't dwell on the
past from our past failures. We can't let our past failures dictate our present choices, right?
Again, I'm always, I'm going to, I always say to take what you can and learn what you can from your
past mistakes, from past failures, because there's always something to learn. Because that helps you
get better going forward, right? So you don't make the same thing, same mistake over and over and
over and over and over again. But we can't dwell there. We can't stay there. Because if, just think
about it this way, if your lack of decision, your lack of making a choice, can never really make the
choice for somebody else, right? Because then, and again, again, I'm a Christian. And so we,
we're taught to go out and save lost souls, right? To save people, to get to know, get to know Jesus
Christ and not just know him, but to accept him as, you know, as a Lord and Savior, right? To,
to help get them up into heaven and to really, and just to rejoice with them, right? If,
if we're too afraid of the next, no, someone say, no, I don't want to do that. No, you guys are weird.
You know, nope, I've been to a mega church, quote unquote, and you guys more of like a cult,
you know, whatever, whatever the reason someone may have to tell you, no, right? If you are too
afraid to ask the question again, because the last 50 knows that the next person might've said yes,
and they might've, might've been saved, right? And, and it's the same, it's the same type thing all,
all the way around. If we're too afraid to make a decision, then we just, we just never know.
We don't, we don't know how many lives we're impacting with every decision that we make each
and every day, especially when it comes to living in our purpose and, and going with,
and going with a purpose, right? Going through this life with something in mind outside of
ourselves, something in mind outside of our comfort zone, what we're used to, and really,
really just living and enjoying life, man. Because even beyond just, just helping other people and,
and, you know, lifting them up and things like that, at the center of it all is, are you,
are you enjoying your life? Are you really living? Seriously, because are you really living just
sitting on a sideline, twiddling your thumb, too afraid to move forward because you've been burned
too many times, too afraid to move on to the next job, the next relationship, the next business idea,
the next whatever, because the last one, the last two, the last five, the last 10 didn't work out.
Cheers. I mean, the thing about all the people out there who are successful, the people that we look
at on TV, you know, or listen to on the radio, that we hear from their songs, their albums, you
know, the professional sports players that we see on TV all the time, you know, you think they would
be there if they let, you know, all the bad plays they did, all the bad songs they wrote, all the,
you know, bad movie scripts, TV, you know, whatever, if they let all those things, you know,
all those things, hold them back, get in their way, and it made them too afraid to move forward.
You really think we would have what we have today? You think as many people will be enjoying the
Marvel Cinematic Universe if, honestly, if Stan Lee and co. way back in the day decided, you know
what, comics aren't for us. I'm sure they had some bad ones, right? Not all of them are hits.
And if they decided way back then, you know, nope, call it quits, I'm gonna try something else,
because this, even though I'm really, really passionate about it, I really think I have
something here, I feel this calling on, you know, me publishing these comics, me creating these
comics, but these flops, I don't want to deal with it anymore. And then that's it. That was it. We
wouldn't have, I think my life would have changed so much because, you know, Spider-Man is my favorite
hero. Anyway, I don't want to go off on that tangent too much, but you just really, it's something to
think about, right? To not be so complacent, to be just, not to be content with being a background
character. Because like I always say, we're the main characters of our own lives, the main characters
of our own stories. And I don't know about you, I don't want my story to be about me being a
side character. That's just not how it is. Not for me, not for me at least, right? And so,
and so the verse that kind of spoke to me when I was kind of delving into Gohan and really looking
at him as a character is Colossians chapter three, verse 23. And it says, whatever you do,
do it from the heart. It's something done for the Lord and not for people. Which pretty much says,
pretty much says, whatever you do, don't, you know, don't just go kind of lolligag through it.
Don't just go through the emotion. Do it with purpose. Do it with a heart in the right place
for the right reason. Because in Gohan's case, he decides to actually fight and to train with some
effort, with a higher goal than just, you know, I'm not training, not fighting just to fight,
I'm fighting because, because there's a moral at stake, just my own life. There's more at stake
than just me losing a battle, right? I mean, he has a kid, he has a wife, because he has his father,
his mother, his brother, you know, Pagelow, Vegeta, all of them. He has everyone who's depending on
him. And him not, one, not doing it, not deciding to train, not to fight, as well as just kind of
going through the emotions and just really not really giving it all that's putting all of them,
all of that at stake. And so, and I encourage you to find whatever it is that you feel like you're
called to do, because I think you know, by now you've listened to enough episodes, you've,
you've listened, you've done enough deep work inside to know what you, what you're calling it,
or at least have an idea of it. And whatever that is, I want you to go for it, go for it.
Go all in. Don't be afraid anymore. Don't sit back expecting somebody else to come do it for you.
I really want you to accept what you have, what you've been blessed with, and go for it.
You know, just go all the way in. Whatever that looks like, however that looks like. Again,
I encourage you to pray on it, ask for guidance on it. And it's just, don't be afraid, because,
and again, we only have this one life, right? This one life here. And I encourage you just to
make the most of it, right? Just make the most of it. Make the most of it with smart decisions.
But really, just don't be afraid anymore. Don't, don't live that timid life, because I really
don't want you guys to. So, all right, so that's enough about Gohan. So let me shift gears a little
bit to another character whose idea around potential is a little different. Whereas with Gohan was
reluctant to use his potential, Broly never knew how to use his potential, right? He never knew how
to use his gift. He was never properly taught. And that's how this kind of ties in. So I really
want to do these two characters together, because it's the same concept of us using our potential,
using what we were gifted with, but from just the two different mindsets. One of reluctance and one
of misguidance, really. And which leads me to my first point for Broly, is Broly being misguided.
So, in regards to the iteration you use, whether it is the Dragon Ball Super version or the older
Dragon Ball Z version of Broly, it's pretty much the same MO. As in, Broly was raised, essentially,
to be a weapon of revenge. That's it. Again, for those who don't know about Broly, Broly's backstory.
So again, the Sand Race, Broly's another Sand, the Sand Race were actually killed off by
Frieza, who was pretty much a space lord, conqueror, whatever you want to call him.
And he blew up their home planet, planet Vegeta. And in both iterations of the story,
Broly and his father, Paragus, ended up surviving the genocide. But in both cases,
they were both betrayed by King Vegeta at the time, because Broly's innate power level was
far superior out of anyone we've ever seen from such a young age. Because throughout the series,
a lot of the characters, they get stronger and they grow stronger through training, through life
experience, things like that. But they all have an innate baseline level that they're born with.
And Broly's, again, was massive. He was huge. He was over a lot of grown veteran soldiers.
And the king didn't like that because Vegeta, the Vegeta we know, who's Prince Vegeta, was just born.
And Broly's power level was even higher than his. So the king just couldn't have that. So he had
Broly, a first child, killed and eventually exiled off to the planet, which inadvertently
helped Broly and his father to survive the genocide. So that's a little bit of backstory.
So while they're on this abandoned planet, Paragus, Broly's father, is raising Broly essentially as,
again, like I said, a weapon of revenge. He's using the boy's innate gift for his own
deferred purposes and really just want to enact his own sense of justice upon the royal family,
right? The Vegeta line or whatever you want to call it. And it really sucks because Broly is a
lot like Gohan in the fact that they're both gentle souls at heart. I'm not going to say he's not a
fighter because he is, but that's not the first thing on his mind. He's the only full-blooded
sand that I've seen who has such a soft disposition about him and soft in terms of he doesn't like to
fight. He doesn't want to fight if he doesn't have to. Training interests him, but does not end goal.
He just wants to live and enjoy life, which is weird for sands, right? And so his father kind of
used that against him because Broly, trust me, loves his father, right? And he didn't really know
what the end goal was going to be, but Perigus took advantage of that, right? And I feel like
it's easy for us to essentially trust the wrong person or wrong people in our life and basically
give them the keys to our potential, the keys to our treasure, right? Thinking that they'll help us
cultivate it, it'll keep us safe. But in reality, they just want to use you, right? Use you for your
own good deed. I remember reading a couple of things about child actors and actresses, right?
Where their parents are using their child's money because again, the child's too young to actually
use it in themselves. So it typically goes to their parents. So I believe it's like a trust fund or
something like that. I'm not exactly sure, but parents are just blowing a child's money on
whatever, right? No, whatever it is. And they're essentially using that child
for their own gain, using it for their own purposes and using it for their own whatever.
And I mean, the same thing happens to grown people too. Like those who are
naive in whatever field it may be, it can be professional, it can be in academics.
You are the new person, the newbie coming into a situation, to an area that's already been
established. And you look for guidance, you're looking for someone to help you,
to point you in the right direction, to help you, you know, essentially hone whatever skill or
talent that you dare trying to learn from, right? And if you find the wrong person or,
which is more often than not, the wrong person finds you and you don't know how to discern between
someone's bad intentions or someone who's genuine, then that can lead your gift to becoming a curse.
And what I mean by that, like if you, because again, God gives, He gives us gifts to use,
you know, for His purpose, the purpose that He deems for our lives. But if you misuse and
mismanage it, then it will become a curse to you and honestly, eventually to others. Because
you're using, you're not using it the way it was designed to be used, right?
Just think about it, think about it this way, any type of exercise that you do,
if you do the exercise wrong, you're going to feel it. You know, just the simplest way I can put it,
you're either going to pull something, you're going to tear something or worse, right? If you,
if you're doing an exercise wrong, they may be working the muscle, the same muscle group, the
same area, you may be actually working the same group. But if you're doing the wrong type of
exercise or you're doing the exercise itself wrong, then there's going to be repercussions, right?
And it's the same, it's the same thing with our gifts and our talents, right? If we don't know
how to use it, you know, using it wrong, we're just making it worse, you know, making it,
you're turning it into something that it was never meant to be. And that's why it's important,
it's very, very, very important to be careful who you let in your circle, who you let in your ear,
because as important as community is, as important as it is to have somebody by your side who, who,
you know, speaks some truth into your life, speaks truth over you, is equally important. It's not,
it's to not have the people who are only out for themselves, who are only out to use you for their
own devices in your ear as well. It goes, it goes both ways. So again, that's being, that's being
that's being the misguided, right? So the next point we go over for Broly is the,
the one that we all pretty much know is the uncontrolled side. I mean, when he succumbs to
his rage and man, well, we, again, if you, if you know, you know, right, Broly loses his mind,
it just goes to a blind fury. He's, he's nigh unstoppable because he's just, he's not, he's
not going to stop fighting no matter what's happening, how much damage he's taken, no matter
what has happened, unless you put the fear of death into him, then she's not coming back. And,
and for us, if we don't handle our gift correctly, it can easily consume us, right? It can easily
consume us. And one thing I want to kind of illustrate this with is, so a couple, a couple
of weeks ago, the church, the church I go to every once in a while, they do a series called At the
Movies. And our pastor shows some movie clips and then he preaches a message based off the clips
that we've seen in the movie. Cause again, Jesus taught by parables and parables are just stories,
right? Earthly stories with heavenly principles in them. And the movie that my pastor went over
that time was Elvis. And this really aligns really well with this and that Elvis is, you know, gift,
right? We all know he's essentially called the, you know, the king of rock, right? And his,
his manager at the time, whose name escapes me right now, but his manager at the time was again,
that person who only saw, he saw Elvis as a cash cow to help pay off his own debt that he accrued
and he got, so he made sure that Elvis was alone at every possible opportunity. So he could essentially
sink his fangs even deeper into them to get more out of them. And basically, essentially led Elvis
to his death, inadvertently through Elvis' downward spiral of drugs and addiction and things like that.
But that is a clear case of his gifts consuming him, right? Because he felt Elvis felt a different
call on his life for beyond just the music he was making. He wanted to make more of a gospel type
music to reach a broader, broader audience and things like that. But because he had the wrong
person in his corner, his gifts became a curse for him, you know, losing his family, getting hooked on
drugs, things like that. And it just consumed him because he always had to perform the next big show,
the next big thing, next big thing like that. And eventually, he eventually destroyed him. Now,
coming back to Broly, Broly's gift of immense battle power, immense strength, it consumed him
into a blind fury, a blind rage, which almost led to his death too in the Dragon Ball Super movie,
because Goku and Vegeta were about to kill him because the whole time they were holding back
just enough because they didn't want to kill him because they knew he wasn't a bad guy.
Broly wasn't a bad guy. He was just misguided. He was misguided, he was used by his father,
and he just didn't know any better. So they didn't want to take it out on him. They just
wanted to get him to calm down so they could have a conversation again. But again, you know,
you know, Broly goes on a rampage, there's no stopping him. And because he didn't know how to
use his own power properly, it just went wild, went rampant. And like I said, it almost ended up with
him dying. And that's the same thing with us. If we don't keep our gifts in check, if we don't
set boundaries and guidelines to how we use our gift, when we're going to use it, what we're going
to use it for, then we run the risk of letting it make those decisions for us. Right? And then
at that point, you're no longer in control. You're no longer in control of it. That's when the gift
becomes the curse and now it's in control. It's in control of you. And you start to lose sight of the
initial reason why you wanted to do X, Y, Z in the first place, why you wanted to start the business,
why you wanted to get the promotion, why you wanted to get into the next relationship, you know,
whatever the case may be, whatever the reason why you started on this journey in the first place,
you lose sight of it. If you don't have the boundaries, you don't have the guidance,
you don't have the control over your gift. Right? And the best remedy for that is finding some
proper guidance. Right? At the end of the Dragon Ball SuperMove, we know Goku offers in training
Broly because Goku's in himself. I mean, you're super strong, but you can't control yourself when
you start getting too angry. So it'll just be a waste at that point. So Goku took it upon himself
to have him and Vegeta help train Broly so he can get a better handle on his powers, that he can
become a valuable ally, a valuable asset later on down the road. And what that means for you and
for me is to find a mentor who you can trust and who you trust enough to, again, speak the truth to
you, speak truth over you. And if you've got a big head, they're going to tell you, or if you're
second guessing yourself, they're going to tell you. And who you trust enough to put you on the
right path. Who lived more life than you have and who knows, you know, at least have an idea of what
to expect or what the mindset you had, mindset that they had back when they were your age,
at this moment in time or this part of their career. And just, you know, ask them, sit down
and have a conversation with them. Because I know a lot of people would just love to be able to
share their knowledge with somebody else who's eager and willing to learn and who is more than
willing to take that next step, who's ready, who may not be quite ready or who think they may not
be quite ready to take that next step, but they're willing to at least try, right? To really, to at
least go out. They're not being complacent like Gohan was, right? They're willing to take a chance
and go out. And if you have a good mentor or someone who's been around the block a few times,
right? Who's lived a little and who's seen more things and whatever analogy you want to use,
right? Someone who has your best interest in heart and who truly wants to help you get to that next
level, then that's indispensable. That's indispensable, man. Because in all honesty,
knowledge and wisdom are, in my opinion, the most precious things we have in this world, right?
Because if we can just pass these things on to the next generation after us, whether it's our kids or
younger siblings or grandkids, niece's nephew, your little Jimmy down the street, little Tony
up the block, whatever it is. And it doesn't have to be this big age difference. It can be someone
who's literally a year younger to you, who's at a different part of their life than you were. You
can reach a helping hand back and help and you'll help and we'll walk them, walk them forward.
Because again, life is brutal. It can be unforgiving. It can be all these different things.
But if you have at least one person, at least one person, somebody who's got your back like that,
right? Who is essentially a rider that's only going to put you on the right path so you don't slip
and fall and lose your way, then again, that's indispensable, man. That's indispensable.
Because I guarantee you, the next big bag comes around, they're not going to want to have to deal
with Goku, Vegeta and Broly. That's too much. That's too much for anybody. Goku and Vegeta are
already enough. They throw Broly in the mix. That's rap. That's it. And yeah, I've heard you guys
to be that Broly, to be that new weapon, that hidden threat that no one sees coming right.
And then they see, boom, you made it. You made a million dollars. You started that super successful
business, right? You have an awesome relationship, whether it's with your spouse, your parents,
your children, whatever it is, you learn that awesome skill. Now you can do anything you think
of, right? Whatever it is, whatever you're setting out to do, you're going to get there.
And then at the end of the day, you're going to get there. And it's all about how you manage your
own potential, your own gifts and who is in your corner, right? Who's in your corner. And honestly,
when I was looking into Broly and how I wanted to kind of go over this, because again, Broly is one
of my favorite characters from Dragon Ball, because I just like the character, but this one
verse kept coming to my mind. That Psalms, chapter 32, verse eight, and it says, I will instruct you
and show you the way to go with my eye on you. I will give you counsel. So again, that's
essentially what it's saying. The Lord is going to show you how to use the thing that he gave you,
right? And I don't think there's a better mentor in existence than the person who gave you the
gift that you need help with, right? I mean, it's kind of, it's a cheat code essentially. It's
literally a cheat code. And it doesn't get any better than that. So at that point, what do you
have to worry about, right? The person who gave you your gift is going to show you how to use your
gift and how to use it the right way, when to use it, how to use it, when not to use it, all of that.
So at this point, all that you have to do is to listen and then keep going forward, right?
Listen to the instructions, practice, practice, practice. And when you make the mistakes,
because we all will, then get up, dust yourself off and take, take note of what you did wrong and
what can you do to avoid it or to learn from it and move on, right? And all of this is internal
work. All of this is personal things that we have to go through on our own time. Can no one else
can do it for us as much as we want to, right? Again, don't be complacent. Don't be like Gohan,
how he was, think, and go through Jesus's, come swoop in and say the day every time, because
they're not. And take responsibility, accept who you are and who you've been called to be.
And yeah, just get out there. Let's get after it. Well, that's all we got for season two of the
Ataka Liberation. I hope you guys enjoyed it. If not, let me know too. And let me know what anime
you guys would like me to cover in some future, future seasons or even some future special episodes
or anything like that. Because I got plenty of material, but I would like to know what you guys
want to hear what you guys are interested in. It could be something mainstream, could be something
no one's really heard of before. And they just give me excuse to watch more anime, right? One of
the things I just love to do. But yeah, I had a lot of fun doing it during the season. And Dragonball
means Dragonball holds a special place in my heart because it's one of the first ones that I started
off watching. But anyway, I won't bore you guys with that detail. So again, that was the end of
this season and look forward to the next one. Because I'm covering an underrated anime,
exactly underrated, which really kind of hams on the idea of friendship and camaraderie.
But not so much in the sense that the power of friendship beats everything, but more in the sense
that it really shows your own strength and weaknesses within a group and how you guys can
accomplish goals together. And that anime is called World Trigger. So again, I just want to thank you
guys for tuning into today's episode. I pray that you get what you needed out of it and that you
learn something new about yourself. Feel free to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review.
I would love reading you guys in the comments and it helps me improve each and every episode. Now,
always remember, you are the main character of your story and that story doesn't end until he
says so. All right, we blessed.