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Timeless Life Lessons From Avatar: The Last Airbender
The animated masterpiece offers invaluable insights that transcend demographics
Avatar: The Last Airbender is an animated masterpiece due to its sweeping saga and life-affirming message.
It’s become a personal tradition of mine to re-watch this magnificent series each year.
Created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, the three-season fantasy show is set in a world containing four civilizations based on the four elements: the Air Nomads, the Fire Nation, the Water Tribes, and the Earth Kingdom.
Within the population of each civilization are individuals born with the psychic ability to manipulate or “bend” the element symbolic to their culture.
In each generation is born a unique person who can bend all four of the elements: the avatar, who is tasked with maintaining balance in both the natural and spiritual world.
When the avatar dies, their soul is reincarnated into a new body from a different nation, so the cycle continues.
At the beginning of the series, the current generation’s avatar — Aang, an air bender who is an Air Nomad — has been missing for 100 years. During that time, the wealthy and powerful Fire Nation began an all-out war…
