Who are you? Or, more to the point, what are you? Have you Purpose, goal, need?
Do you have dreams, visions, prophecies
Of what you want, wish, or what might be
For You?
I ask this only because, with my return to training coming nigh (hopefully within 2003) I've had to reevaluate my stances on a lot of issues.
I'm becoming downright furious with my job. My manager, to be specific. Once, a cool assistant manager. Now, a two-faced, double talking manager. My scheduling conflicts with school and job are becoming horribly muddled.
I've come to question the cultural trappings of my style. Why do things a Japanese way? Just becasue they've been done like this before? Karate, at least the style we practice, isn't Japanese, but Okinawan. Same nation, but the intent is different. Besides, this is a gym in the U.S. I don't pronounce things, I butcher them.
I've come to know more about myself than I'd've liked previously. I've come to define myself through my physicallity. Something, previous to weight training and later, martial arts, I didn't do.
So, to the topic:
Who is being honest with the self? Whether that honesty be conveyed in training, living, spirituallity (spit and gasoline cover the face of religion), are you being yourself?
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