After a certain age, your parents slowly become your children. They ask simple questions, repeat stories, and depend on your patience the way you once depended on theirs. Very few understand this role reversal. What looks like innocence or inconvenience is really time coming full circle. Don't correct them harshly. Don't rush them. Care for them the way they once protected you. This is not a burden. It is repayment.
That’s a funny way to put it, but in-universe it’s more symbolic than literal.
Sokka and Suki don’t actually avoid kissing at night because Princess Yue is “watching.” Yue becomes the Moon Spirit, so she’s more of a spiritual presence than a conscious observer.
The moon symbolism is there to remind us of:
Sokka’s grief and loyalty to Yue
the emotional weight of moving on
and how the Moon Spirit is tied to waterbending and balance
So when Sokka eventually moves forward with Suki, it’s not him “waiting for permission from the moon,” it’s more about him finally finding peace with Yue’s sacrifice and being able to love again.
Still… the idea of Yue just casually side-eyeing from space is peak Avatar comedy
People respect you more when they don't see you often. Even parents. Trust me. It's strange how distance rearranges love, how absence restores what closeness erodes. When people are deprived of your presence, they start seeing you clearly again, not through habit but through awareness. Proximity dulls perception. Space sharpens it. That's just how the human mind works.