Thoughts during my shower

You know what, I'm happy with what happened today.

(well, not getting knocked out would be great, haha)

But I dunno, there are things that I got out of today that I could not have if I have fought differently.

Instead of last year, where my mindset was "If you f-cking come near me, I'm going to kill you", this year was totally different.

I went into the ring, the opponent and I acknowledged each other, and just had a game of tag.

It was full of "Oh my goodness, sorry! Did I hurt you?"

And you know what, I might not be getting the whole picture, but I made a lot more friends that the people who won 1st and 2nd in sparring.

The 1st place guy, was a natural at karate and just won his matches.

The 2nd place guy, the guy I've been training with for the last month, use aggression instead of technique.

And I'm not saying I'm proud that I had a lower ranking than them, but I made real good use of the matches I won and loss to talk with people.

There are David from Switzerland, who speaks French, is in UofT for an exchange program, who ranked 3rd in both Kata and Kumite, who I faced like 3 times today, only started Karate 2 months ago, and is extremely cute. (like legit blonde hair, blue eyes, gentlemanly accent)

There was Eugene, who remembered me from last year because of my hair, exchanged our belts whenever we need to change colours, and hopes to compete with me next year again.

Dvindar (sp?), also now Bulldozer. The guy who knocked me out? Man, I had to calm that guy down cause he was legitly shitting his pants. Scared that he hurt me, and if I was going to upset. Naw man, we settled it with no aftermath. I even told him that I didn't necessarily need to forgive him, because I was sure that the kick was not on purpose. And we settled it with him buying me a drink next time we went out. XD

There was some UofT girl who was watching me during Kata, and was really impressed.

OH, and the medic was super nice and caring. Took care of me the way I think he should have, and had a responsible yet warm personality.

And just our Karate club got to know each other so much better, like our conversations at the dinner table were great. It was mainly about philosophical questions, our relationship status, politics, opinions, and karate stories. I enjoyed tonight so much man.

Life feels good when you learn that you don't need to win to have fun.