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The Black Belt Test
11/4/2000
The big day. At 3:00 p.m. today I'll be testing for my black belt in a 2-4 hour test. Its not an earth shattering event. There are hundreds of black belts running around in the area, but still, its something I have worked towards for several years now. Something I've wanted since I was a kid, and something that has cost me a lot of time and pain to get.
I'll do well at the test. I know that, but can't help being a tad nervous. It doesn't matter. Nothing can go wrong today. I just refuse to allow it. Besides, I have my bag of lucky Swedish fish to eat before I go. How can I fail?
Its funny. You dream about something. Ponder and wonder if you really want to do it. Then you take those tentative first few steps. Before you know it you're steaming along towards completion. Shedding ineptness, doubt, and some where along the way, inflated expectations. By the time you reach the peak and look back your dream has changed. That former vision of an actor or musician, or athlete is now alien and strange. Just TV dreams standing quite a few paces from reality. You're allied with the informed.
From now on talking to the uninformed will always bring a smirk to your face. What are they thinking! The things they say! Its like they live in a fantasy land.
They do.
And wasn't it a great place to be?
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