Board Thread:Konoha Logs/@comment-27079171-20160522200814/@comment-27079171-20160523131928

Kano: After a few runs back and forth from the pond to the shore Kano would hear the man start to snicker at his previous statements and begin to speak his mind about them. The old man would talk about the chasing of power and no matter how much you attain it will never be enough, which struck a chord inside Kano making him realize that maybe he didn't need the power, maybe he just needed to accept himself and stop worrying about trying to shoulder the load for the ones around him and just master his natural and given talents. He would hear the man speak of how he hailed from the bloody mist of Kirigakure and how he even took the lives of his own parents and served them as a meal, making the statement clear in Kano's perspective that there is no higher power, the more hungry you are for power the mor irrational things you will do to attain it. Again he would speak of wisdom and the importance of understanding as he would bring the subject to them being human and how society itself has seperated what was once a proud group of people into different villages manipulating their minds into making them think everyone is different from each other instead of just coming together as one cohesive unit to live side by side in a happy world, but then again that wasn't real life rather just a great dream that might be achievable one day if the right steps were put in motion. Before the old man went silent again he would say words that left Kano speechless in his own thoughts for about an hour. He would speak of how Kano would have to show the toads how alike they were for them to even acknowledge him, and how he needed to find the true purpose in his heart as he only saw one filled with fear and a mind overcome with uncertainty. He would hear the two birds screeching above before hte last statement would enter his mind that from heart to heart they are one, to show them how pure of heart he is, and to rethink what it is to be human, and what he would make of his life before his preverbial clock of life took its last tick.

After about an hour of gathering water and moving it to shore Kano could the the murkyness lifting  as the blue hues of the pond began to shine through, the exact feeling he was feeling in this hour of silence. After hearing the old man speak Kano would ponder in his mind and think closely about the words spoken to him and felt as if the fear and unsureness were being overcome with answers and certainty. Kano would finally break his silence and begin to speak as he went back into the water for another round "Now knowing you are from such a brutal time of Kirigakure shows me how genuine and how alike you are to any other person. Had I known you were from that era and place before I would have been on high alert due to what I had been taught growing up about the merciless and brutal bloody mist, but you have broken that barrier society has put up around me showing me that we are all one it just takes the person to realize how great we can be as a species helping each other as you demonstrated earlier. I believe as humans we must not only acknowledge thy fellow human but everything around us and appreciate life itself. Society has made us self-centered and only worried about what "I can attain." or "How I can be better than this person." instead helping us all attain and become equal. My heart is telling me that to experience humanity at our fullest potential we must attenuate ourselves by enfolding this self=centeredness within a much wider sense of self. A sense of ourselves in which we experience genuine love and compassion for all beings, both living and non-living. Once we reach this wider deeper selves which I believe to be our deepest level self-conciousness, our ecological-self, I feel that the wider self is not some insubstantial, ethereal intellectualization, but rather deeply rooted in the very materiality of our planet in its teeming biodiversity, its ancient crumpled continents, its swirling atmosphere, and the depths and shallows of its lakes, rivers, and oceans. Thus, the ecological self is not only the human self it is also the Self or soul of the world that awakens us to our full humanity when we know, palpably, in our very bones, that there is a selfhood far vaster than our own in which we live and have our being, and to which we are ultimately accountable. That my old friend is what the water is making my heart speak." he would finish saying as he continued to clear the water.