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This has been a headcanon of mine for awhile. There is no evidence in the books or in the answers that Jordan ever gave in Q&A session.

Nynaeve is Latra Posae Decume reborn.

In the Age of Legends (Strike at Shayol Ghul) LPD opposes Lews Therin's plan to seal the Dark One. She proposes using the Choeden Kal to raise a barrier to surround Shayol Ghul from the rest of the World in the hopes that later generations might find the answer. (I'm slightly iffy on my memor of her exact plan, but it was very much something like this) Her plan is thwarted when the Access Keys are lost, but she never changes her mind that LTT's plan is too dangerous. She was probably correct. If women had joined the Strike then the counterstroke could have tainted Saidar as well as Saidin.

In the books, Nynaeve joins Rand in using the Access Keys to cleanse Saidin and then joined him in his own strike at Shayol Ghul.

Both Nynaeve and LPD were correct in their reasoning. The Pattern reusing the same soul, in such similar situations, but with different choices and different outcomes is very much in keeping with the Pattern choosing balance.

Nynaeve didn't "fix" LPD's mistake, because LPD didn't make a mistake. Nynaeve completed the task that LPD started, just in a different manner.

This doesn't really change anything in how things worked out, but I think it adds a nice symmetry. Because history doesn't actually repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

I was introduced to the Wheel of Time by a friend named Mat. This was in the early 90s. Neither of us could understand how serious the series was or how important it would be to me. Matt died of leukemia just a few years later.

I have read and reread the series multiple times. Today i the anniversary of his death, 30 years ago, and I am thankful for my friend. Not just because he introduced me to these books, but because he was my friend. GNU Matt. I love and miss you.

Obligatory this happened today.

I am a 47-year-old man. I am not a mechanic, but I have picked up useful traits over the years. I know how to change a tire. I know how to use a jack. I know how to patch a tire when the damage is simple enough. Basic practical stuff.

There is a guy at work named Carlos. Carlos is from Peru, but he has lived here for around 20 years. He is a nice guy. I want to be clear about that. He is not a bad person. He has never done anything terrible to me.

I just do not like him very much, and the reasons are petty.

He talks to me before I’ve had coffee. We do not mesh. This is the entire reason that I don't like him.

The problem is that Carlos likes me.

He seems to like me because I am generally kind, relaxed, and neutral. I try not to be cruel to people. I may be an smartass sometimes, but I am not mean.

So this morning I got to work around 6:40 and saw Carlos in the parking lot with a flat tire. He had the terrible factory jack that comes with most newer cars. The kind that technically works, but makes the whole process slower, more awkward, and more annoying than it needs to be.

He did not know how to use it. He also did not know how to take the tire off.

Again, I do not really like Carlos.

But I am not going to stand there and watch someone struggle with a flat tire when I know how to help.

So I went over and asked what was going on. He told me he got a flat on the way to work. I helped him get the car jacked up safely, got the tire off, and found a nail in it.

He started calling around and was told it would be about $120 to get the tire patched.

That annoyed me.

So on my lunch break, I went and bought a tire plug kit for about $10. I brought it back, patched the tire myself, and got it back on his car. He did not really help because he did not know how. I just fixed it.

That should have been the end of it.

It was not.

Now Carlos wants to take me to dinner to thank me. I told him I did not do it because I wanted anything from him. I did it because it was the right thing to do.

This made it worse.

Now he is telling people at work that I am a great guy and a great friend. There are only five people in the office, they all know that I just want to be left alone.

I do not want to be mean to him. I do not want to say, “Carlos, I did not do this because we are friends. I did it because I didn’t want you to spend $120 on a $10 problem.”

But that is basically the truth.

So now I have accidentally strengthened a work relationship I was trying to keep politely distant.

TL;DR: Helped a coworker I don’t really like fix a flat tire because I didn’t want him to get ripped off. Now he wants to take me to dinner and thinks we are better friends than we are.