I really think that martial arts and music are very close to each other and both require a lot of focus and improvisation because you don't know where or when you're going to get kicked!
HiromiChallenges are the key in life. You always have to challenge yourself and try to get to different states.
HiromiSatisfying yourself requires challenges because when you come to a certain point, you're not happy anymore. You don't feel happy with the way you played one year ago, you have to always make progress. So that's a challenge.
HiromiA child isnโt born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Letโs just say that when I realized that I didnโt want to grow up, the damage was already done. Knowing that being grown up was no swell place to be means that you are grown up enough to notice. And you canโt go back from there. You have to forge another route, draw your own map.
HiromiI, on the other hand, still might not be considered a proper adult. I had been very grown-up in primary school. But as I continued through secondary school, I in fact became less grown-up. And then as the years passed, I turned into quite a childlike person. I suppose I just wasn't able to ally myself with time.
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