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Randy Cunningham: Ninth Grade Ninja belongs to Disney and all other associated higher-ups. I'm just a kid playing in their sandbox.
2. you will learn lessons. you are enrolled in a full time informal school called life. each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. you may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.
The Nomicon was like a second school, Randy discovered. It was kind of annoying in some regards. He already had enough to deal with at regular school; he wasn't really up for another.
But that's what it was. The Nomicon threw lessons at him daily, making him struggle to find the meaning of its riddles while saving the world and being a normal high school freshman.
The comic books made this stuff look so easy.
And he feels like the Nomicon would slap him constantly if it could. He skirted around a lot of the lessons until something major happened, something that warranted his immediate attention and his completing the lesson. The mundane tasks seemed stupid, yet the ancient book would flash at him or shut him out if he insulted it or refused to acknowledge the lesson.
Sure, there were some things he enjoyed learning. The Air Fist had been a cool skill to master (despite the whole "release the chicken" thing), and the Earth Attack had been mastered quickly – though he rarely used it, he'd learned that lesson the hard way. The Tengu Fireball was probably his favorite of all of them, because it was unique to his time as the Ninja despite the limits it had and the hard lessons that often accompanied his training sessions with it. And he got most of the lessons in the end, he really did; those that he did not quickly catch onto were the ones that he found annoying.
As he rolled into his second year of being the Ninja, Randy finally caught on with what the Nomicon was doing in order to train him. It was giving him life lessons to master, life lessons to embody what the Ninja must do to protect the town.
Life is full of lessons, the Nomicon told him. The Ninja must be open to learning them all.
It was after that when Randy began to appreciate the Nomicon more than ever. It was not only the guidebook to being a great Ninja, but it was also like a cheat sheet for conquering all of the lessons life continually threw his way.
After all, there is no ending bell in the school of life.