[Qui-Gon smiles. It’s a fair question—Ezra asks plenty of those. He’s also always tried to answer them to the best of his ability, and as honestly as possible. Sure, those answers weren’t always what Ezra wanted to hear, but they were always something that he needed to hear.]
[Hopefully, this will be a rare combination of two positives.]
It was the Force’s will. I heard it speak to me, and I obeyed its command.
[Whenever Qui-Gon spoke about the Force in such a way, as someone who acts instinctually on its call, he’d been met with sidelong glances from his Jedi contemporaries. He loved philosophy, and he loved to debate such things, but many others just saw his words as an excuse for his actions or a perceived need to argue and prove his superiority above others.]
Over the years, I’ve come to realize that there are rules in place for a good reason, and that we should do our best to follow those rules.
But that there are also times where those rules can and should be bent for the sake of the greater good. My training does not eschew the Jedi ideologies that we are to accept death. I met my own without trying to fight it. However, to retain one’s consciousness after death isn’t to avoid it, but to provide an avenue for it to be used to do good.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2020-07-21 03:46 am (UTC)[Hopefully, this will be a rare combination of two positives.]
It was the Force’s will. I heard it speak to me, and I obeyed its command.
[Whenever Qui-Gon spoke about the Force in such a way, as someone who acts instinctually on its call, he’d been met with sidelong glances from his Jedi contemporaries. He loved philosophy, and he loved to debate such things, but many others just saw his words as an excuse for his actions or a perceived need to argue and prove his superiority above others.]
Over the years, I’ve come to realize that there are rules in place for a good reason, and that we should do our best to follow those rules.
But that there are also times where those rules can and should be bent for the sake of the greater good. My training does not eschew the Jedi ideologies that we are to accept death. I met my own without trying to fight it. However, to retain one’s consciousness after death isn’t to avoid it, but to provide an avenue for it to be used to do good.