The Pilgrim doing Pilgrim stuff

[Akio Diachi]

[member="Karen Roberts"]

Akio swallowed and searched his mind for how to answer the question the right way. He hadn't really formulated his thoughts on the galaxy at large, or society, and he hadn't been asked about it either. It took him a few minutes to decide on how to answer as to what exactly best personified his opinion of Denon's society.

"Well," he began, "I do feel that there are some very good things. Hot water is nice, warm food is good. A soft bed to sleep on is a nice change to the pallet I was used to. It is very nice to not sleep in the hot and the cold, so air conditioning is very good too. People seem to generally be ok with each other, and I appreciate the peace. However," he hesitated. He didn't know how to say this exactly except to just dive into it. She had asked for his opinion after all.

"There is something lacking. Hugely lacking. So many people seem to lack purpose. They feel alone in a crowd, lost on a path, out of place in the world they were born on, and hungry amid a world of food. Most seem to be lacking anything really spiritually, I cannot help but wonder if their lack of purpose, their lack of way is because," he paused and licked his lips, "they have become too comfortable to commit themselves to something greater, something worth living, fighting and dying for.

"Perhaps they have a family, something I know I never will," he said with a wave of his hand, "people they know who love them, and so many friends. But they refuse to commit to them. In a real way, in a strong way that makes bonds that last forever. They are lost amid toys and comfort instead of giving themselves over to their children."

"Of course, there is nothing wrong with comfort," the Chiss added hastily. "That is not what I am saying in the least. Its very good to not have to endure the harshest elements. I just wonder if many have devoted themselves to only comfort instead of something that will outlive the moment," he sighed, 'does that make sense? At all?"

Akio knew he was aloof, caught up in his own bubble of reality--at least that was how it appeared to most. And, yes, usually he was. But he noticed things. A lot of things that most didn't.

[member="Karen Roberts"]

 

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Ah yes. The virus of naive idealism raises it's unique head again. Karen had thought she'd sensed it again when he arrived. A barrier to any good Jedi training that was.

"Mmm. Sounds like these people are on a pilgrimage of their own yes? Perhaps one we might all call, Life."

She smiled and stepped through the wide exit doors.

"Tell me then, oh Pilgrim. Is it a sin to be lost? Is it a sin to wander this great world?"

Trick question.

She was tempting him to make a judgement based on a twelve year old's version of good or evil. The correct answer was simply that one need never judge another person at all. It was never actually required outside of societies social structures. Besides? Unless you knew another person as only the Gods can know them? What's the point. The lives of others and the good passby were simply tiny paintings to your mind. Pretty little pictures. So small and fragile. Photos, without a past to understand and without the knowledge of the future held only by the heavens. Oh my, yes. And how can one judge an orange's taste just by looking at it? Or judge the character of a man simply by smelling him? Nonsense.

Akio noticed things all right. But only as a listless mortal can. With humanity. He dared to be priest without a priesthood, too eager to be a prophet without a God. Things that would surely undo his Jedi training if he gave them too much priority. Karen could not teach this type of mind. It was already too full of water.

[member="Akio Diachi "].

 

[Akio Diachi]

((Sorry for the delay on the post))

Akio smiled for a moment. It was a barbed question and he well, had to start with the prerequisite.

"I don't believe in sin," he said frankly. "At least not in the most common sense. Right and wrong aren't so much in the common sense real. Right and wrong are measured more so in the minimum damage they do to others. I believe the saying is 'do no harm,' yes? So, I suppose if wandering harms others then, yes it is a sin. If not, then, its harmless and no," he shrugged, "I suppose though the idea would have to be that there is a dichotomy; that there is only right and wrong. But I feel there is a lot of grey. A lot."

But that was just his opinion. He wasn't going to hold anyone to it, and really he didn't expect anyone to. "I don't feel condemnation towards those who wander--we all wander," he chuckled, he had for quite some time, "Its more a matter of why you wander, I think, that matters."

[member="Karen Roberts"]