Firstly, I don't exactly like the idea of having a blog. Most blogs are just self-absorbed navel gazing and I was worried that I would fall into that trap, thinking that for some reason the internet needs to hear about my day. But snobbery aside, I feel somehow that my private and kung fu lives should be separate. I'm perfectly willing to talk someone's ear off about kung fu or write a blog posting about philosophy or music I like, but it seems to me that somehow Graham (hey, guess what--that's my name) and Sifu Robertson are two different people.
A good example of this is my heroes posting about Adam Morton. One of my roommates noted that I didn't include any sort of criticism or cons about professor Morton, which is a good point. Now, I doubt any students or black belts would have felt comfortable with that. There's a supposition of authority as a black belt, I'm supposed to know what I'm talking about. But to my friends, I'm just myself--free to make mistakes, etc. Do my friends challenge me to improve by not knowing me thourgh my status/accomplishments? Or by forefronting my position, does it carry a responsibility to blog the best I can?
Heh, I bet you were all expecting me to answer that question.
4 comments:
oh no... you left us hanging. how will I ever sleep at night now? Maybe blogging is easy to me because I love the thought of other people being able to know how I feel BECAUSE I put on such a different face at class. But that makes it exciting... hey, look at me, I have faults and I'm not the super hero I try to be... I'm not really Batman in real life... though kung fu is real life, so then where is the line between the two? I think having more people read your blog will increase the quality because you are forcing yourself to be one person because all your spheres are coming together... but that's just the way I see it ;) Some of my clients are now reading my blog, so I know how you feel... I don't necessarily want to show them another side of me, but I figure a lot of what I write is okay for them too. My biggest worry was my mom reading my blog, but that has turned out fine, so just write what you want to and don't worry about it.
I quite enjoy reading your thoughts...I have not seen you since you grew up and since you became Sifu Robertson. This intelligent blogger is a wonderful new side of you that makes me appreciate your character even more, and you entice me to exercise my brain by thinking about what you express.
If you look closely, I'll bet Kung Fu actually does overlap into your private life...I wonder how confident and self disciplined you would have been if you did not have Kung Fu as part of the building blocks of your character? And fortunately or unfortunately, being a black belt does change how others respond to you, both inside the kwoon and outside it. I have found it can either inspires others or makes them challenge you. I wonder if this is part of the responsibility of being a black belt, kind of like knowing when enough is enough with physical confrontation.
Just a thought.
Darnell McKinley
Sifu;
No offense , and I may be showing my IQ. but this is the first blog you have written that I really understand.
The small insight into your personal life makes you a little more human. You have always made me very aware of how different we all are.I like this side of you.
Linda
I have been telling him to dumb it down for years sifu... haha. So it's not just you, I think we're all learning big words and how to write good... haha. that was intentionally grammatically incorrect because he'll notice.
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