Tag: One Daily Tale
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Being an Adult
Read more: Being an AdultAt what moment do we truly become adults? Is it simply a question of age? Of experience? Isn’t being an adult, in the end, the awareness of our own responsibility toward others, and in particular toward future generations? In their desire to rebuild Esperia on healthier foundations, the Seven Shapes had placed this notion of…
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Remembering the Fundamentals
Read more: Remembering the FundamentalsKenko, the Shape of Health, and the Great element of Earth were the perfect representation to remember how important the fundamentals were. Just as the ground lays the foundations for a solid structure, the element of earth was certainly, by nature, the element closest to these fundamentals. The world needed to return to the basics,…
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What Seems Obvious to Us…
Read more: What Seems Obvious to Us…It is not necessarily so for others. And if this conclusion may seem trivial, we still have to have thought about it in order to perceive it. For when discussions become more heated and arguments begin to emerge, this awareness disappears beneath the veil of our Shadow, which then acts in our place when we…
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Global Understanding Impossible Without Compromise
Read more: Global Understanding Impossible Without CompromiseThis was the conclusion that now seemed obvious to everyone, following the global disaster of the Chaos War. No understanding on a planetary scale would be possible without compromise. And the world before the war was far from being a world where making compromises came naturally. On the contrary, by exacerbating individualism, it had become…
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The Importance of Children’s Education
Read more: The Importance of Children’s EducationIf there was one thing that all the Esper children on the planet shared, it was their natural ability to learn new things quickly and to retain the values they learned for the rest of their lives. Obviously, these values can evolve over time, but for a child whose values have not yet been established,…
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The Balance Between the Sexes
Read more: The Balance Between the SexesThe time gained through the use of magic, new technologies, and agriculture had also helped shed some light on another mystery of Esper civilization: harmony between the two sexes. Although, for the survival of their species, the two had to build families and reproduce, communication and harmony between the two sexes were far from being…
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Giving Your Time Is a Sign of Love
Read more: Giving Your Time Is a Sign of LoveEsperia, which the Seven Shapes were trying to rebuild on healthier foundations, was now a world where the five elements, as well as balance and time, had become central pillars of the daily lives of the Espers. The time before the Chaos War was a period when technological advances and the use of magic had…
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A Simple Speck Among the Stars
Read more: A Simple Speck Among the StarsBefore the Chaos War, amid the agitation of the world, Cha Cha often took the time to reflect, going against the need to always move faster in the society in which he lived. Yet when admiring the sky and its stars, it is so easy to realize just how each person is nothing more than…
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Making Choices
Read more: Making ChoicesThe civilization of the Espers had changed greatly. For millennia, they had influenced nature, the soil, mountains, rivers, seas, and all the surrounding ecosystems. Access to more food, one of their fundamental needs, had profoundly changed their ways of life, which, little by little, had transformed their civilization into the one we now knew. The…
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Nature Has No Price
Read more: Nature Has No PriceThe functioning of Esper society was based on a simple concept, but one that was now causing a serious problem: nature has no price. The Espers had freely taken control of the land, rivers, and seas, without ever needing to provide anything in return. For decades, recent technologies had also begun to reach the skies:…