Dabbling

I have been training in Kung-Fu for most of my life....almost 20 years now. When I was a child, I remember going to classes and being in awe of the blackbelts. Over the years my life has changed, I've faced challenges, I've moved away, gone to university, got married, got my degrees, got cancer, had a baby, but through it all I've always trained. Even when I was gone.

I hear people say that the biggest thing that comes out of their Kung-Fu experience is the friendships made and the social aspect of the kwoon, but the hard-core training part isn't for them. When I hear this, when I hear people talk about not being into the whole training thing, I don't know what to say. To me that's the same as saying you enjoy the taste of apples, but don't want to chew.
Ok, maybe a bad analogy, but my point is that Kung-Fu for me isn't something you can dabble in....how do you dabble in becoming a better person...a better wife, better mother, better employee, better everything? Kung-Fu isn't just the the kicking and punching, it's more than that, but at the same time, it is kicking and punching. The philosophies behind Kung-Fu, the real life lesson stuff is learned through doing, not through hanging out with people.

 I hear, "Kung-Fu does nothing for me, just makes more work", and I say, "you haven't done the work to know what Kung-Fu can do for you".

So many people are missing out on something wonderful. And yes, that wonderful comes through hard work. But everything worth doing is hard work. If you want to sit around like a vegetable and not do anything, go ahead. But I'm hear to tell you that you are missing out.

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