|
June 2004
This month, i feel, signifies a huge turning point in my life. Before, I was loud, obnoxious and cocky. But now, I'm more recessive, but not in a bad way.
I'm thinking more of my actions before I do them, I've matured, my fighting skills have increased and my Karate Instructor can see that I have more intensity in my actions.
Of course, there will always be detractors and haters, and I swear, I WILL pray for them . Hate is such a strong word, and many people dont understand the phonic meaning of it.
"Hate" means that you want something dead. So I would like to implore people, be careful in your usage of the word.
Well, we'll see how June outs for me. |
 |
June 4, 2004
Firstly, I would like to thank James Smith, my long time friend, for hooking me up with the 8 dollars I needed finish paying for my sword. Today, we both took a journey out to Flushing, New York and we each bought Boro-ku (wooden sword for the martial-arts-impaired). Its real cool, but I was kinda upset cause he got the one I wanted. But then, I got over it because his was heavier than mine. Its actually cool though. He knew his mom would complain over petty things, so he just decided to leave the sword at my house. I think he is a fool, becauce I use his sword to train with (heavy) and my own to spar with (lighter) ^__^. Yeah, I know, thats wrong, but, whatever. One thing that got me mad was just how annoying the ppl in my neighborhood are. I dont really mind when ppl walk past and they stare whilest I train - Thats expected, i mean, its not like they see a true Warrior everyday. But the thing that annoys me would have to be when people think I'm training in my yard to be an Exhibitionist of sorts. Thats an annoying misconception. I'm just trying to embetter myself in accordance to the Way, and the little kids think I'm going to start charging up and start to destroy housees and etc. Its depressing, but I know why. These people have no knowledge of the Way and the path one must take. In fact, the only thing they know of Martial Arts is what they see in movies and on Power Rangers©. Perhaps i'm expecting too much of everyone.
Today ended pretty cool- me and my other long time friend Mustupia were just talking outside my house from about 8:40 to 9:20. We even touched upon new philosophies. After some light sparring with Mustaphia around 8, i was actually explaining some things to him. And I ahd three other friends outside my gate. All four of them came from one of my friend's house, so it was all cool. After describing something to Mustaphia, I had a QUICK epiphany, and right then and there I decided that I liked Samurai more than Ninja (where at this point, Mustaphia said "THATS RIGHT!" quite loudly and we exchanged dap. I guess he was a little tired of this "Pretend Ninja" nonsense and decided to follow something applicable and practical). OF course, my friends seem to enjoy pretending that they are ninja, while only one of them can even come close to following the way (more on that tomorrow, maybe). So ONE of the three took this as an insult, or something, I dunno, I dont really understand his way of thinking. But in any case, he was attempting to have a debate about why ninja are better than Samurai. Mustaphia and I were calmly trying to tell this guy why he was wrong, and how he was making an ass of himself. His claims were that he knew more about the Way (Bushido) than we did, and said that the Ninja Way (Nippo) was better and produced better warriors. This is more or less the outline of the argument, and it ended with him shutting up after Mustaphia ans I decided to let him rant on to people who didnt really feel like giving him any justification. At this point, Terrell (the friend of mine who is probably the only one that can be considered anything Ninja-like) saw that Mustaphia and I were really fed up with the BS and were three bs comments away from Borokuing my friend due to our deafening silence, so he wisely decided that they leave and continue on to his house. And this is when Mustaphia and I had our talks.
So, that was my Friday. It basically ended with Mustaphia giving me a training idea I shant divulge here, at this time, and leaving to stop by Terrell's house real quick. I ended up going back inside around 10:30. |
|
