It's interesting how your life can change and be completely different than what you thought. It's interesting how you can find yourself bowing at the person you once hated before all things. It's interesting how you can betray the only person who cared about you without so much as a backward glance.
I am General Zuko, I bow to Fire Lady Azula, and I find a lot of things interesting.
I often reminisce to eight years ago, when the Fire Nation seized Ba Sing Se. I find it interesting how at that time I almost helped to Avatar, I was ready to free Iroh and run with him and that water-tribe peasant…somehow I think things would have ended quiet differently.
I also find it interesting how well I remember everything, every tiny detail. I remember the ashamed look as Iroh turned away, I don't think he ever looked me in the face again; though I wouldn't know because I never did.
I remember the way he fell after Azula struck him down for the last time, the sickening thud that let everyone know he would never again rise. I still hear that sound.
I remember the look on the blind earth-bender's face when Iroh died, that absolute look of complete hatred her features took before she herself died at my sister's hands.
But the most painful thing is the way Katara looked at me as I struck down the avatar with the very same swords I had used to save him, at the time, only a few months before. In fact I still have a scar across my chest where she ripped into me just as the moon passed from in front of the sun.
I am General Zuko and I make my choice eight years ago, I have many regrets, many more than I have brought up. My choice changed the world and I find that interesting.