That's the privilege the powerful have : to live life on their terms. Seung was right. We were trapped. I couldn't escape my engagement. I was powerless to say no to my parents. Neither could he escape the forces that condemned him to the gold mines and a life of poverty. We couldn't be together-not as we were then. But Seung was wrong about one thing Neither you nor I have anything close to that kind of power, and we never will.
While that could be true for Seung, with the countless forces arrayed against him, it might not be true for us as a team. Now I've got ki, the admiration of my drill instructor, the grudging respect of my fellow students. If Seung lacked the power to change our fates alone-to continue to imagine a world where we could have what we want, possibly even a world where we could be together-that doesn't mean that I can't do it for the both of us.
That's the privilege the powerful have : to live life on their terms. Seung was right. We were trapped. I couldn't escape my engagement. I was powerless to say no to my parents. Neither could he escape the forces that condemned him to the gold mines and a life of poverty. We couldn't be together-not as we were then. But Seung was wrong about one thing Neither you nor I have anything close to that kind of power, and we never will.
While that could be true for Seung, with the countless forces arrayed against him, it might not be true for us as a team. Now I've got ki, the admiration of my drill instructor, the grudging respect of my fellow students. If Seung lacked the power to change our fates alone-to continue to imagine a world where we could have what we want, possibly even a world where we could be together-that doesn't mean that I can't do it for the both of us.