Welcome to Day 28 of my NaBloPoMo Challenge, where I randomly pick a card from the Star Wars Chat Pack.
Today’s question is: You’re nine years old, like Anakin Skywalker, and a Jedi offers to take you away from home for training. Would you go?
No. As much as I love the idea of the Jedi, and think it would be cool to be one, at nine years old, I never would have left my family. It would have worked much better if I’d been taken at birth. That’s why the Jedi do it, of course. Less traumatic for the kids, and the Jedi can shape their young minds from the very beginning.
I was much too close to my family, as well as shy and reserved, and would not have done well in a new, strange place like that. Besides, my mother would never have allowed it. No one takes her babies, lol. Best to just let whatever powers I had fade away.
Besides, look what happened to Anakin. It didn’t end well, obviously. It began a chain of events that led to tragedy and the galaxy falling into darkness. Not that that would happen anytime they took an older child–there is precedent in the Order for taking in older Force-sensitive kids (Zeen in the High Republic, for example), but not to be trained as Jedi Knights. They can find a place of belonging, and fulfill other roles in the Temple. But Qui Gon was adamant that Anakin was the Chosen One and needed to be trained as a Knight, and I think this was what Yoda and the Council objected to. They were right, of course; but so was Qui Gon, from a certain point of view.
So, not me. What about you? Would you give up your family at nine to train as a Jedi? Let me know in the comments and we’ll talk about it!
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I agree with you, by that age i’d have too many attachments to leave
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