We always ourselves as something special, hard to tell if not through speeches or profound metaphors more or less effective. And with us, are not of immediate communication of our thoughts. Some remain there, waiting for refining. More rising slowly up and convince us of something. Still others are quickly up and form our ideas. Internal processes, which normally belong psychological area.
Then, in the midst of casual conversation are other people - external to one's feelings or to a particular context - that we hold out - almost violently - an enlightening truth on which we reflect (maybe) for months, which had arrived with difficulty and conviction.
Example.
the end of a session , the great musician Marco Carpita Shinseikai asks me about discipline, and how long they are practicing.
Less than two years, I say.
Then you've just started. You should not be yellow belt? - He tells me.
I tell him that the passage of the belt has been subject to tough scrutiny and Shinseikai, and that there is no 'fast track'.
I see. And he says, including: "Do not you just get what you pay anyone."
True.
Another example.
Accompanying Alex and Lara to swimming session, the parents disagree about the practice of swimming and sports in general. Who runs, who takes, who swims. I express my admiration and passion for swimming, which do not practice for some time. One of the mothers asked me why. Said in a minimal my minimal experience and minimal results in the world of Karate.
widened his eyes and says, "Then you train the mind, as well as the body."
True.
Never overstated, never underestimate the other, in karate and in life. Karate in a shot can send you to the mat, in life a simple truth that other can make you feel cocky, and make you fall anyway.
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