[ he's still not sure whether to laugh or cry about it...
but. xie lian adjusts how he's sitting, folding his arms over his knees as he gazes out at the training field. ]
You know, Rin - I am not that much older than you.
...Up until the past few years, I lived something of a charmed life. It all came down crashing, to say the very least, but... there are many lessons that I still feel like I have to learn. My practices, my mediation - most of the time, it is successful, but some days, I am still left ashore by my emotions. No one is perfect; even the gods in heaven are fallible.
You should not feel disheartened, if that creature speaks ill words to you. We are all still learning to contain what needs to be contained - and even those of us who are supposed to be extraordinary at it are perhaps still just as human.
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Date: 2021-10-31 07:05 pm (UTC)[ he's still not sure whether to laugh or cry about it...
but. xie lian adjusts how he's sitting, folding his arms over his knees as he gazes out at the training field. ]
You know, Rin - I am not that much older than you.
...Up until the past few years, I lived something of a charmed life. It all came down crashing, to say the very least, but... there are many lessons that I still feel like I have to learn. My practices, my mediation - most of the time, it is successful, but some days, I am still left ashore by my emotions. No one is perfect; even the gods in heaven are fallible.
You should not feel disheartened, if that creature speaks ill words to you. We are all still learning to contain what needs to be contained - and even those of us who are supposed to be extraordinary at it are perhaps still just as human.