Originally Posted by
YouKnowWho
Hendrik,
I can truly feel your pain here. You have some idea that you have spent a great deal amount of your lifetime to obtain and develop it. You feel strongly about it and you like to share with others. Unfortunately, for some unknow reason, people are just not interest.
In another forum I tried to share my life time experience with some Judo guys about "the danger of body spin". Since it concerns with the kernal of the Judo art, people felt defensively. I soon found out that in order to convince others, I was "teaching an online class but without pay".
Confucius said, "When a piece of jade is hidden in the closet and people don't know it's there, you should not feel upset." He also said, "When nobody care about your opinion, you should get a raffle and float on ocean".
It's good to help those who needs help. It's stupid to help those who doesn't want to be helped. Sometime the more that you write, the more that you may get into argument. If argument will raise your blood pressure, I just don't see any good reason to do so.
After we had retired from our work force (I don't know how old you are but I have retired for almost 10 years by now), TCMA is the only thing that left in our daily life. We want to talk about TCMA all day long because that's where our hearts are.
This was what I did in another forum.
- I typed exactly what I want to say.
- I then checked to see if I had repeated myself with my own words.
- I then deleted those words that I had said in the past.
- Finally I found out that I had nothing new to say.
- I then deleted my entire post right way.
This way,
- I had expressed my opinion (type it and delete it),
- I don't have to repeat myself, and
- I could also avoid argument.
After all no matter how long the fun party (TCMA online discussion) may last, there will always be an ending day. Oneday when you and I are 90 years old, and find out that we are arguing with a 20 years old how to do a punch, we will both feel "silly" and end with to
- get a rope,
- find a quite place, and
- hang ourselves.