Why do you want to be a NA'Vi on Pandora?

[Eana Unil]

Originally Posted by apache_blanca

you're right, Aurora, this thread deviated quite a bit from the OP - sorry I have contributed to it (but that video is just too good )

Back to the OP: why would I, being the person, whoever & whatever I am, want to be a Na'vi on Pandora?

"Jake, it's real simple": the flow of energy. The Na'vi know it; they perceive it, live it & breathe it; for them, it goes without saying, "this, too, is a fact".
The deep connection people have with the forest considering animals their brothers & sisters
- & honouring them even if they need their body for survival.
"It's a network! - and the Na'vi can access it, unload & download data, memories...";
"you can feel what the other feels... inside",
all energy is borrowed & one day we'll have to give it back;
the ancestors live within Eywa,
the Great Mother always listens & sometimes even answers - but doesn't take sides...

That's my thing. I want to be one of them; we'll certainly understand each other. No questions asked.

Oh, and I also want to be 3m tall, blue, with a tsaheylu braid (tswin?). & a tail would be a great addition to express emotions

Don't forget the ears!

No, seriously, I totally agree.

The Na'vi haven't lost connection to nature, their "All Mother", to each other, just the world which surrounds them. They're literally and directly connected to it.
They "see", we Humans don't do that (anymore). We have lost our own kind of connection to our "All Mother", our planet. We're abusing and destroying her because we're greedy and don't "listen to what she tells us" in her very own kind of "language". The Na'vi do. They are greatful for everything which her All Mother gives to them and especially for everything they take from her. They live in total harmony with the nature they're part of ("Meoauniaea", wonderful word) and also with each other. They treat each other with respect. They don't destroy each other because of their greed or jealousy or hatred or whatever like we Humans did and do.
(I know that not all human beings are this way, but unfortunately most of our kind are.)

I'm aware of the fact, that Na'vi also use(d) to have Clan wars and such (-> Pandorapedia). But I can't imagine that they fight each other during such wars because of the "enemy" "is sitting on sh!t that you want" or because they think that the "enemy clan" is "not worth living". And so on...
I also know/think that the Na'vi are also vunerable to injuries, diseases and death. But well, that is the circle of life. And the Na'vi respect and follow it.

Also, Pandora is just breathtakingly beautiful. I would wanna live inside it as a Na'vi because of that and everything else mentioned.

But... unfortunately, Pandora isn't real. So I still have to deal with my "Weltschmerz" and the fact that I'm human and not much better than everybody else who uses electric current, plastic wrappings and so on... Sweet misanthropia.