Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Am I a "Politoed in a Well"?

It's now the midpoint of my tenth year of Pokémon blogging, and there's been a lot of ups and downs in all that time - perhaps more so the latter than the former recently. For that, I thought about making a reflection of what has transpired and what may be in the future for me and this Pokémon blog, certainly with some Pokémon viewpoints or takes. The current opportunity for that prompts me consider that things may not seem as they are for me and the Pokémon things that I deal with or participate in.

The situation has to do with the expression I put forth in the title of this post. It's a Pokémon interpretation of an expression that relates to a certain kind of person whose worldview is limited. The person is likened to a creature that resides within a well - here a Politoed, a particularly relevant example - who only sees a tiny circle of the sky and deals with the water in the well like that seems to be its whole world. Of course, by reasoning, that is definitely untrue, and thus the creature (and by extension the person) is in a limited state.

Having started this blog many years after I've returned to the place where I currently reside and dealt again with Pokémon affairs in the place, it might seem that I've locked myself out of certain Pokémon views and opportunities beyond this realm. In that way, it seems I might be considered to have become the "Politoed", even with me trying to get at some of the things, particulars, and information that exist somewhere else for the purpose of the blog.

At any rate, the views and opportunities I carried with me from my previous place of residence - which would be the U.S. - had already expanded my worldview, including for Pokémon itself, preventing me from becoming the "Politoed" I would otherwise have been had I not been there. For the purpose of this blog, that then seems to work out sufficiently well, allowing me to cover all the Pokémon happenings that are fit for me and everyone else who may read.

So, it seems that I could consider myself a "Politoed" who does understand that there is a big and great (Pokémon) world out there - yet it's just that I seem to be hopping from "well" to "well" and potentially restricting my views based on whatever "well" I end up in. It's not quite in the spirit of the phrase, but it evokes certain similar ideals by the situation.

Everything in the big and great (Pokémon) world out there deserves to be understood and known, even for Politoed who lives in a well (or wells). The solution for that is or may be wholly another matter of discussion, but it's something that is also deserving of an understanding for me and other fans whose worlds may sometimes be restricted.

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