Spring 2024 Black Belt Cycle

Candidate Journals

King Tiger Tae Kwon Do Black Belt candidates blog daily about their journey: their thoughts and feelings, their struggles and successes; their pain and their encouragement. Follow along on their journey; words of encouragement are always welcome!
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Look Up!

I had a really good morning today. Started off with some of my requirements and then I went to Black Belt class with my daughter at our school. I identified that I really need to work on Sa Jang and Oh Jang. I have been mixing the 2 and I feel like I have to relearn them.

I went to the Concord Mills mall today and as I was walking to the door, I noticed a small rainbow in front of me. It made me smile and I looked around to see if anybody else near me noticed. To my disappointment, they did not. People were either looking at their phones or looking down at the ground in general. I kind of stood there looking at the rainbow and then looking at people and nobody noticed it but me. I go into the mall and I really pay attention to folks walking through and the majority of what I saw is the same thing as I saw in the parking lot...looking down. I remember when I went to the mall as a preteen/teenager I went in groups of friends and we talked, laughed, and shopped together, which means we interacted with each other (I am dating myself so much here that I'm about to take myself out to dinner right now). Now, they still go in packs but nobody talks to each other, they're in their phones. Look up people, you're missing so much! It made me sad that all these people missed out on something so beautiful because they were looking down. 

Ok off my soap box now, time to go eat some pizza, wings, beer, and yell at the football game! Go Bills!

Day 15!
1/4/20