Telling a Jedi to supress strong emotions as children was the worst lesson

Hot take: telling Anakin Skywalker and Maul to “control their emotions” as children was the worst lesson they could have been taught.

Neither of them were ever truly shown how to process fear, grief, anger, or attachment in a healthy way. They were taught suppression, not emotional regulation. Silence, not understanding.

For Anakin, that pressure turned fear into obsession and shame.
For Maul, it turned pain into identity itself.

When young people are told to bury emotion instead of understand it, those emotions do not disappear. They grow in the dark.

Star Wars repeatedly shows us that emotional neglect creates the very darkness the Jedi feared most.

Do you think the Jedi failed Anakin emotionally from the beginning?

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