Talk:Chakras/@comment-107.8.16.178-20110821203452/@comment-3068994-20110821203936

He continued to everything, because he is human. Humans have emotions. Think of Escape From the Spirit World, when Fire Sage Kaja is telling Roku to "free his mind of all thoughts" to focus on the Avatar State. Roku went on with life after mastering this - having human emotions still.

Pathik fouled up hard making Aang believe he had to let go of things forever. That is not the requirement. He had to free his mind temporarily of all things that would interfere with the course of cosmic energy he was attempting to control. If he allowed his mind to be affected by fear/love/etc, he could make a poor choice or have his control tainted and end up stuck in a self-induced Avatar State. Who knows what else would happen. This happened to Avatar Roku, when he used the Winter Solstice sun to help him slip into the Avatar State he couldn't exit it.

Aang would never give up all emotions forever. Only temporarily for control of the Avatar State. It is not possible that this would turn him into a forever walking zombie with no human emotion.