[That's very good luck re: phones. We had to rent because Japan has no GSM network, so international plans wouldn't have worked on my phone regardless. I'm sure you will have an absolute blast! It's not actually a hard country to get around once you get acclimated, especially if you can read some hiragana and katakana. You've got fab places to stay and Book and Bed sounds like it will be a real experience--what a very Japanese concept that is!]
Aurus nodded thoughtfully as he listened to Charles talk. His own experiences were different in many ways, but there were some elements where the two dovetailed.
"Yes, I agree--it seems to me that anger and fear are two quite different matters the experience of which may be very hard to differentiate. Or rather, one can be angry about the same thing that one is afraid of, and teasing one feeling from the next can be...difficult.
"In a way, I suppose my conversations with your students today touched on the matter: 'Act with wisdom, but act.' It's one of Ventari's teachings, one which I consider to be among the most important, but it comes with a challenge. Finding the wisest course of action is rarely straightforward. I'll admit that some of them seemed to resent that complexity."
He was quiet for a moment before speaking again: "The children told me about a war--something that happened here in years past. I don't think they felt able to explain it well, so I don't know if I really understood them. Something about certain types of people being identified? I gathered that it is disturbingly easy for them to see parallels with their own situation in the world now."
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Aurus nodded thoughtfully as he listened to Charles talk. His own experiences were different in many ways, but there were some elements where the two dovetailed.
"Yes, I agree--it seems to me that anger and fear are two quite different matters the experience of which may be very hard to differentiate. Or rather, one can be angry about the same thing that one is afraid of, and teasing one feeling from the next can be...difficult.
"In a way, I suppose my conversations with your students today touched on the matter: 'Act with wisdom, but act.' It's one of Ventari's teachings, one which I consider to be among the most important, but it comes with a challenge. Finding the wisest course of action is rarely straightforward. I'll admit that some of them seemed to resent that complexity."
He was quiet for a moment before speaking again: "The children told me about a war--something that happened here in years past. I don't think they felt able to explain it well, so I don't know if I really understood them. Something about certain types of people being identified? I gathered that it is disturbingly easy for them to see parallels with their own situation in the world now."