Jolee Bindo - Love
Posted: 2011-05-16 03:52am
Does anyone else feel impressed by this thoughtful quote of Jolee Bindo's regarding love? (Quote taken from YouTube's Tales of Jolee Bindo vids.)
Well? I think it's not just for Star Wars, but a real, worldly piece of advice that anyone can understand. If ONLY someone had sat down and taken the time to tell this to Anakin... imagine how much better off the galaxy'd be...The Tales of Jolee Bindo – Love
REVAN: You mentioned something about your wife before?
JOLEE BINDO: I don't want to talk about that.
REVAN: I don't mean to pry, but...
JOLEE BINDO: Yes you do. You may mean well enough, but my private affairs are just that: private.
JOLEE BINDO: Let me tell you something. Once you've lived as many years as I have, you'll have yourself a long, long list of memories.
JOLEE BINDO: If you're lucky, most of them will be good. If you're not, some will be bad. If you're really unlucky, some will be so bad you never want to be reminded of them again... ever.
JOLEE BINDO: You'll go far away, to a place that doesn't hold any memories at all. And there you'll be happy just to forget and be forgotten.
REVAN: Is that why you went to Kashyyyk?
JOLEE BINDO: Heh. Partly, maybe. I doubt I could ever explain it to you fully, even if I wanted to.
JOLEE BINDO: Let me ask you this: have you ever been in love? Truly in love, I mean, and not simple infatuation.
REVAN: Well...
JOLEE BINDO: Exactly. You're still at the beginning of your life. There will be women in your life... perhaps many women... but if you're fortunate you'll find love once.
JOLEE BINDO: The Jedi, with their damnable sense of over-caution, would tell you love is something to avoid. Thankfully, anyone who's even partially alive knows that's not true.
REVAN: That's what I've always thought.
JOLEE BINDO: Love doesn't lead to the dark side. Passion can lead to rage and fear, and can be controlled... but passion is not the same thing as love.
JOLEE BINDO: Controlling your passions while being in love... that's what they should teach you to beware. But love, itself, will save you... not condemn you.
JOLEE BINDO: Ahhhh, but listen to me go on as if I had all the answers. What do I know of love anymore? I'm just a lonely old man who's not even a Jedi.
REVAN: Not even a Jedi? You mean not any more, right?
JOLEE BINDO: Nope. Never was. Technically I never rose above the rank of Padawan, for various reasons. Does that surprise you?
REVAN: Not the way you describe your past, no.
JOLEE BINDO: Heh, I suppose I'm not prone to live my life like most of the Jedi Masters do, that's true. My opinions on love are no different.
JOLEE BINDO: Love causes pain, certainly. Inevitably love is going to lead to as much sorrow and regret as it does joy. I suppose there are perfect, eternal loves out there... but I haven't seen any.
JOLEE BINDO: How you deal with the bad part of love is what determines your character, what determines the dark side's hold over you.
REVAN: Maybe the Jedi just think you shouldn't take that risk.
JOLEE BINDO: Bah. A life without risk is boring. Is that how you want to live? You want love, you've got to fight for it.
JOLEE BINDO: I'll tell you one thing: sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you and the one you love simply aren't meant to be together.
JOLEE BINDO: The trick is to know when that is, to know when it's time to fight and when it's time to part ways.
JOLEE BINDO: Hmph... there I go waxing philosophical again. Somebody blast me already! Let's get going before I start talking in riddles, dammit!