I have been doing karate for almost six years now, and I have devoted a great deal of time to it. I feel like in some ways I have "burnt out", but I feel like that does not constitute my major concerns. About 4 years ago, I was so encouraged by karate that I would have thought people would be crazy to quit. In the last couple of years, I have realized that what I loved because it lacked "drama" is actually consumed by it. The politics that are involved were enough to make me not only emotionally upset, but actually become bitter about some of the people I know (not everyone I have some great friends there) and training. If anyone has ever taken karate, I think they would know why it is such a hard decision to make. I feel like if I quit I am a coward for running away when there are hard times, that I would be leaving something that defines what I have been for a long time, and I would lose a lot of karate friends who don't understand why I am quitting.
2007-01-07
14:36:05
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neverconsiderlifeonascale
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