You can't waste regrets on thinking things could have been different if only you had done better. If Shanks wasn't a moron he wouldn't have lost his arm because he wouldn't have needed to rescue Ace's kid brother from the sea monster. But Luffy also wouldn't have respected Shanks' sacrifice so much either. As Shanks himself puts it, he bet his arm on the future.
True, it wasn't her choice to die then in that way, but blaming yourself doesn't solve anything.
Put it another way... If I hadn't run back to my father during Marineford when he started coughing up blood, I wouldn't have gotten trapped in seastone and that wouldn't have distracted Jozu into losing his arm. But I can't change that. And it was my father. [The thing he feared most, more than anything, his biggest concern and deepest fear before the battle, at the start of it, in the middle, and right to the very end even when Ace died and Blackbeard killed Whitebeard.] I can only remember that moment so if something similar ever happens again, I'll stay focused.
If Esmerelda were still alive and right here now, but could only tell you one thing before she had to go away again, what do you think she'd say?
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True, it wasn't her choice to die then in that way, but blaming yourself doesn't solve anything.
Put it another way... If I hadn't run back to my father during Marineford when he started coughing up blood, I wouldn't have gotten trapped in seastone and that wouldn't have distracted Jozu into losing his arm. But I can't change that. And it was my father. [The thing he feared most, more than anything, his biggest concern and deepest fear before the battle, at the start of it, in the middle, and right to the very end even when Ace died and Blackbeard killed Whitebeard.] I can only remember that moment so if something similar ever happens again, I'll stay focused.
If Esmerelda were still alive and right here now, but could only tell you one thing before she had to go away again, what do you think she'd say?