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**xanaxist** · 09-24-2007, 06:50 PM

i know the feeling well.

i agree with MikeW that it is probably different for different people.

personally, i tell myself to stop being a wuss and that being responsible enough to do all the crap that you don't want to do, but ought to do, is just what it means to be a grown-up. that's more or less what my mom taught me when i was little.

kendo helps me get through those times because it can be very, very hard to keep going. it is a way for me to keep practicing forcing myself to keep going even when i don't want to or don't feel like i can. that practice makes it easier for me to keep going in other circumstances. it isn't like there is a specific lesson that i try to take from kendo in order to apply in life in these kinds of circumstances. rather, i think that kendo helps make me the sort of person who can just go and do the thing that needs to be done regardless of how i am feeling, because that is exactly what kendo demands of us.

09-24-2007, 06:50 PM	#8
xanaxist Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 489 Senior Member	i know the feeling well. i agree with MikeW that it is probably different for different people. personally, i tell myself to stop being a wuss and that being responsible enough to do all the crap that you don't want to do, but ought to do, is just what it means to be a grown-up. that's more or less what my mom taught me when i was little. kendo helps me get through those times because it can be very, very hard to keep going. it is a way for me to keep practicing forcing myself to keep going even when i don't want to or don't feel like i can. that practice makes it easier for me to keep going in other circumstances. it isn't like there is a specific lesson that i try to take from kendo in order to apply in life in these kinds of circumstances. rather, i think that kendo helps make me the sort of person who can just go and do the thing that needs to be done regardless of how i am feeling, because that is exactly what kendo demands of us.
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