[Switches to flicking Natsuno's forehead.] Of course it hurts.
It means you're alive.
People take it for granted. Living without the pain or the feel like you're drowning just to keep breathing.
This island just accentuates it. It makes it easier for them. ["And harder for us" he seems to imply.]
If a happy ending isn't going to happen, don't bother worrying about it. Take the happiness wherever you can. That's what it means to be a pirate. You don't have to let someone else decide your path. Only you do.
If you want Riku around, then don't give up. Hold your head up and keep moving forward until you're walking step and step again.
[He spreads both hands with a shrug.] What that means will change with time, but for now it means figuring yourself out. Whatever Riku needs he may not even know yet. It'll only come to you with time and watching.
Don't focus on what you have or decide you can't have something you want. The world's too big for that kind of small thinking. It'll get you lost. Focus on what you want, find it, and don't lose it. Come at it from all angles. Protect it.
Mah. I told you Ace tried to kill Pops long before he ever agreed to join the crew, eh? [He folds his arms and tilts his head to the side.] Sometimes the thing we want is on the same path, but the obstacles we think are there are actually allies all along. And sometimes what we think we want is really what we want.
Don't give up. [Light shove to Natsuno's forehead again.]
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It means you're alive.
People take it for granted. Living without the pain or the feel like you're drowning just to keep breathing.
This island just accentuates it. It makes it easier for them. ["And harder for us" he seems to imply.]
If a happy ending isn't going to happen, don't bother worrying about it. Take the happiness wherever you can. That's what it means to be a pirate. You don't have to let someone else decide your path. Only you do.
If you want Riku around, then don't give up. Hold your head up and keep moving forward until you're walking step and step again.
[He spreads both hands with a shrug.] What that means will change with time, but for now it means figuring yourself out. Whatever Riku needs he may not even know yet. It'll only come to you with time and watching.
Don't focus on what you have or decide you can't have something you want. The world's too big for that kind of small thinking. It'll get you lost. Focus on what you want, find it, and don't lose it. Come at it from all angles. Protect it.
Mah. I told you Ace tried to kill Pops long before he ever agreed to join the crew, eh? [He folds his arms and tilts his head to the side.] Sometimes the thing we want is on the same path, but the obstacles we think are there are actually allies all along. And sometimes what we think we want is really what we want.
Don't give up. [Light shove to Natsuno's forehead again.]