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morally_cryptic) wrote2006-02-05 11:13 pm
morally_cryptic) wrote2006-02-05 11:13 pm
Failure
His greatest failure as a Jedi was not one single failure, not one single instance.
It was, instead, a failure spread out over a lifetime, the failure of pride. It was little things that led to greater things, and snowballed into monstrous things until he found himself leading an army into the Temple.
Until he found himself destroying his own home.
Until he found himself fighting to destroy his closes friend, his family.
His greatest failure as a Jedi led him to perhaps his greatest triumph as a Sith: the extermination of the Jedi Order.
But things always turn full circle, the pendulum always swings back to where it was, once and he must eventually have a greatest failure as a Sith, they all do. His greatest failure as a Sith was not pride, for pride among Sith was more a virtue than not. No, his greatest failure as a Sith was, of course, his greatest triumph as a Jedi: love.
It was the love of a son for his father that pulled him out of the Dark and back into the Light. It was the love of a father for his son that allowed him to end his failure as a Jedi and do something he should perhaps once have done long before then.
It was love that allowed him to truly live once more. And then die, finally, in peace.
It was, instead, a failure spread out over a lifetime, the failure of pride. It was little things that led to greater things, and snowballed into monstrous things until he found himself leading an army into the Temple.
Until he found himself destroying his own home.
Until he found himself fighting to destroy his closes friend, his family.
His greatest failure as a Jedi led him to perhaps his greatest triumph as a Sith: the extermination of the Jedi Order.
But things always turn full circle, the pendulum always swings back to where it was, once and he must eventually have a greatest failure as a Sith, they all do. His greatest failure as a Sith was not pride, for pride among Sith was more a virtue than not. No, his greatest failure as a Sith was, of course, his greatest triumph as a Jedi: love.
It was the love of a son for his father that pulled him out of the Dark and back into the Light. It was the love of a father for his son that allowed him to end his failure as a Jedi and do something he should perhaps once have done long before then.
It was love that allowed him to truly live once more. And then die, finally, in peace.
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*clears throat*
AWWWWWWW. *sniffles and snugglies the Anakin*
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I bet you did ;)
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And woooo, using linux.
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I'll see if I can get him to answer something after work today...or maybe tomorrow, dependng on when we watch Elizabethtown tonight.
*is omgwtftired*
Anyhow. Off I go to get ready for teh evil that is work. Pray that I can stay awake ;p (of course, it's my own damned fault for wanting to watch Just Like Heaven today before work...not a wise idea when one works 7pm to midnight and then must be Awake to go in for noon the next day. But I did it! And I have no sympathy for myself.)
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