Still Human
4. A lesson is repeated until it is learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
He growls as his fists slam into the punching dummy for about the twentieth time in the past three or so minutes. Raphael has a bit of anger management issues, sure; this is his way of getting them out.
Raph takes to the physical side of being a ninja quite deftly. He is the strongest, though not the fastest – that goes to Mikey, and then Donnie after him. He may not be the most disciplined either, but he makes up for it, he thinks, in raw force and determination.
But for his sensei and father, it never seems to be quite enough.
He wonders, sometimes, if this is some lesson he needs to overcome on his path to becoming a ninja. He's worked on his anger management, sure, and he's certainly improving, but it will never go away. Raphael is angry by nature. It is part of the reason his color is red – the color of rage.
Maybe the lesson continues on, though, because he has yet to learn to control his fury fully. It ebbs and flows in great bursts, and he knows it. Is the universe trying to tell him to let it out at a smooth rate or something along those lines?
That must be it, because Raph can't think of what else it could be.
He hates the lessons that come with being a ninja. But they're important, and he needs them, so he sucks it up and does the best he can.