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Do you think that Aang was trying to gain wisdom, or waiting for someone to reaffirm his beliefs?
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He wanted his beliefs to be reaffirmed.
After speaking to multiple past Avatars who also take a stance opposite to Aang's, Aang says:
All these past Avatars, they keep telling me I'm gonna have to do it. They don't get it. Maybe an air-nomad Avatar will understand.
He, arguably showing signs he thinks their culture is more enlightened and morally superior to the others, expects the previous airbender Avatar to agree with him, and that to be enough for him to stick to his guns and ignore the advice of other Avatars, his friends, and the wider world (aside from the fire nation lol)
It's only when an airbender Avatar very bluntly says he needs to do it that he finally capitulates and accepts the advice everyone gave.
Aang is wise, but he still has ego, biases, and other human failings.
Thank you for the detailed answer
And then, in the end, he figures out how to take down the Fire Lord his way. Which really shows how innately powerful Aang was.
Or lucky. He was just fortunate to run into the lion turtle, otherwise he would have had to kill Ozai.
Or may be the lion turle came by because aang wanted a nonviolent way to deal with this.
Out world, of course it did. In world, that doesn't seem the case.
Nah I'm saying it happened in world. The lion turtles are the OG mystical godlike beings, so may be it sensed his mental turbulence and came by to pull him in and offer him a solution. It almost wasn't his decision to go to it. He was pulled to it, if that makes sense.