Monday, February 27, 2006
Judo
After training for a year or so, I've found that in Judo there is something that cannot be helped. Inevitably, no matter how hard you try, how many sorries you say, you will always injure someone, be it your training partner or your opponent. Such is the nature of the sport. Of course as months pass you learn how to take precautions and look out for one another, but accidents always happen somehow, either a major one such as a knee cap dislocation or a major nose bleed, or minor bruises. So for us seniors to be thrown by juniors is a painful experience which we try to avoid, due to their inadequate skills. Everytime we wince they apologise, but I always tell them not to. Why? The reason being that training includes learning to fall, and that the discipline means learning to withstand pain. Such is the nature of martial arts. There is no need to apologise.
And I've found that there is something else that shares this Judo nature of taking falls and withstanding pain. Love also has this nature. It brings you up in the air, but can cause you to fall and hurt you deep. However, you cannot blame anyone for how you feel. You cannot control your feelings, neither can others control theirs. We have to absorb the consequences of our own feelings and be responsible for it. Such is the nature of love. There is no need to apologise.
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