Evolution
3rd Kup
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It's weird to think how far along I've made it thus far.
I still remember my very first day in the dojang, walking out of there and thinking, "this fulfils a need I didn't even know I had."
As a child I always believed that you could either be good at academia or you could be good at sports, but never both. This was reinforced by a naturally lazy personality, and while as I reached adulthood I started learning this dichotomy wasn't at all true, it still unknowingly shaped my attitude towards exercise for many years to come.
Indeed even up until the last couple of months, I noticed a certain conflict of identity lodged deep in my subconscious mind. The old me, who always believed I was a thinker and only a thinker, hating exercise and everything associated with it, was resisting the awakening of the real me, who has always longed for some sort of physical challenge but never acknowledged nor accepted it, even in my most restless moments.
That was precisely the need I didn't know I had, and where other forms of exercise in the past failed to bring out that side of me, Tae Kwon-Do has provided the key with which to unlock that door and opened the path to becoming my better self.
Sometimes in conversation with others I've heard Tae Kwon-Do referred to as a sport, and while there is indeed a sporting aspect to it, I don't regard it as a sport. To me it's a facilitator of both personal and spiritual growth, shaping the way for me to step up and continue the evolution of the physical side of my life's journey.
And to think all of this was made possible because on one sunny Wednesday in 2019, some stupid wanker started mouthing off at me in Emersons Green park as part of some ill-mannered attempt to impress his equally idiotic friend. Funny how things work out sometimes.
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