Happ-e-ness

Well friends and loved ones… a million and two things have happened since we last chatted. I feel as if I have purged all of the old and loaded up on all of the new…life is beautiful. Right now I am crazy. The truth is that I have become a martial arts Nerd… and it’s the craziest and most amazing thing I’ve ever been a part of. Right now I am completly in love with it… I’d say that I deticate about 8 hours a week to it and that’s only counting the in-class stuff. The pilates and yoga and other excercises and practice outside of class certainly increases the time greatly. It’s difficult knowing that I am going to have to cut back soon…but it’s been a nice vacation. It’s strange that a sport has become such a big part of my life…and to think it was only supposed to be for research for my book.

But it has changed my life… going to the DoJang each night feels more like going home than home does. I don’t have to worry about anything but if I am learning my form and conditioning my body well enough and if I’m not then I am corrected… it is simply beautiful. And the people… the people at the school are just as amazing. We’ve even kind of become a family in a sense. It’s strange to see people come and go and when they’re gone you really miss them. You get to know people in a different way when you are doing martial arts… and you get to know yourself in a different way. It’s difficult to say how much this sport has really changed and improved the quality of my life and even if I had to quit it tomorrow or never upgraded to a new belt…I wouldn’t regret it for the world.

This weekend I went to the convention center and watched others compete… I was a volunteer and was able to see everything from the best seats in the house. It really made me wish that I had participated but it got me geared up when I returned to class on monday and I was more eager and excited to learn than I had been ever before. If there was anyway that I could do this for the rest of my life, as a job or whatever…I would. Unfortunately that isn’t reality so I will have to be content with my evening classes and at home practice sessions. Anyway this blog is all over the map and completely unorganized as well as random… I think I’ll stop before it gets any worse.