Full Faith

You ever notice, in our favorite stories, how there's a person who's kinda clueless?

Young person.

Bumbling through life.

That's who most of us want to be, or at least who we relate to the most.

But there's an old(ish) person, too.

One who's got it all figured out.

Been there, done that.

Who can show the young one the way, if the young one would only listen.

And that's sort of the whole point of the story.

Sure, beat the evil dude at the end, fall in love, live happily ever after, but the story is mostly about the oldie teaching the youngun.

The strange part is most of us grow up wanting to be the bumbler.

The Lukes.

The Daniel-sans.

The Rockys.

The Chris Farleys.

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No one wants to be Yoda.

Miyagi.

Mick.

Sensei.

We want to train to fight in the main event.

We don't want to remember being in the main event.

And that's the part that's sort of funny.

Because as I get older, and do things like wonder what my call sign would be if I had a call sign.

Al "Yoda" Chung.

Badarse.

Now I'm pretty(.) tall for my race. I'm golden, not green. Ears stick out but not that much.

But the rest of it works; I like it.

I know I couldn't use it commercially.

But I don't use things commercially.

Just for my own amusement.

I don't know where I'm going with this other than to say:

[In Yoda voice:] Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

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Oh, I know where I'm going.

The best stories might be about the bumbler.

The one you root for.

To get it all figured out.

But who you should want to be, what we are all striving for, is the one who already did it.

Who already fought (and hopefully, but not required, won) the good fight.

Who has finished the course.

Who has kept the faith.

And who keeps it to this day.

To legends.

I see you.

Yoda out.