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Joshua's blog: "Tae Kwon Do"

created on 07/18/2008  |  http://fubar.com/tae-kwon-do/b232617

Introspection

Life is not an easy thing to navigate. Most people spend the vast majority of their energy just trying to get by. Some people have it easier than others and some have it pretty rough from the start. In a world such as this, where simply trying to figure out what you are supposed to do with your time here can be so frustrating, it is often very difficult to find a level of satisfaction within yourself. This is why Tae Kwon Do has had such a huge impact on my life in nearly every way I can imagine, but especially on my physical fitness, my mental development, and attitude. When I began taking classes I wasn't in very good physical shape. I had issues with frustration, depression, and anger. I wasn't happy. In fact I had been unhappy for so long I couldn't remember ever being happy to begin with. I had a lot of ambitions that I wasn't meeting. My life wasn't going the way I wanted it to go and I had no way to make it better. I knew what I wanted to be but had no idea how to become that person. Tae Kwon Do changed all of that for me. I had always enjoyed the martial arts even before I was a participant within them. From the start of my first day of class I worked as hard as I could and pushed myself as hard as I could go. Sometimes I went so hard I couldn't imagine going any further, but somehow managed to find more energy to keep going. It felt good to stretch my boundaries and push myself to a level I had never been at before. Getting stronger physically was great, but I could also feel myself getting stronger on the inside. Being in class put me in contact with a variety of people who all had their own strengths and weaknesses. This was beneficial in several ways. Watching them exercise their strengths yields encouragement to improve yourself and strive to match such efforts; while watching them strive to overcome their weaknesses brings not only a feeling of kinship with them, but also helps to alleviate your own frustrations towards your personal weaknesses. It also exposed me to a lot of life philosophies I had not seen in action before. Ideas that seemed like fantasies of what life could be seemed to be more realistic when exposed to things like this. Outside of class, things became easier. Tae Kwon Do had equipped me with tools that I simply didn't have before. I was more capable of dealing with unexpected situations. I experienced a huge attitude adjustment. I no longer viewed every unfortunate occurance as ill fate or the result of an existence cursed to suffering. I began to see problems as simple cases of bad luck and eventually started to see some of them as challenges. Due to my training and efforts to improve within the art of Tae Kwon Do my physical condition has improved drastically. This has not only made me healthier physically but mentally as well. I am confident in my physical ability and I have no negative self image problems. I still have goals that I strive to reach physically and they are very challenging for me. I was not very physical when I was young and I have had to work hard to make up for that. Tae Kwon Do has become my forge. I use it to temper myself physically and mentally. If I am having trouble with something in my life outside of class I find myself working harder in class and then I feel renewed energy outside of class. I adjust my character, my attitude, and my nature in Tae Kwon Do. As time goes by I can feel myself evolving into a better person, a person more like the one I wanted to be. I like that feeling and I intend to keep experiencing it.
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