I have been watching a video of Sifu Freddie Lee "You are all About the Money!" a thousand times and I never stop relate to it. Basically, Freddie makes a good point about people who wants thing for free all the time. They expect a Martial Arts teacher to teach for free just because it integrates the spiritual aspect of the Martial Arts while they are willing to buy pointless movies. It is not hard to find pointless movies out there nowadays. You can find them all in the movie theater and on Bluray. I will give you some examples: James Bond movies, Scary Movie, Tower Heist, The Transporter by the so-called martial artist Jason Statham... movies with racist jokes. What else people are willing to pay money for? Hmmm... Oh watching sports! I used to watch sports myself like soccer. One of my friend encouraged me to watch the UEFA Champions League game between Milan Ac vs Barcelona. I watched a part of it and then left after 60 minutes. In these 60 minutes, I could have done something more important than that! It is crazy how people just get attached these players that they forget about their own values! That is why they undervalue the Martial Art so much. It makes me sick to my stomach to notice such corruption. Gosh! People are pathetic creatures I swear. For Goodness sake, you are not playing the fucking game. Why the hell do you feel so damn proud about a player who scores 3 goals in a row against a team you are not cheering for? Are you playing? No! Your favorite team is not you! Same to the people who cheer for the other team. Do not feel bad about your team because it did not win. You do not need to feel anything. You are not playing so you did not win nor lose! Wake the fuck up already! I know it is better than watching cage fighting of course but please stop paying attention to them because they do not give a damn about you!
A very important thing Shi zu shared in this video is how he has given so much that he ended up not receiving anything back. I can definitely relate to that. When you are too giving to people, you are not going to help them at all. They will not appreciate anything you do for them. I had some similar experience myself. There was this guy I used to tutor back when I was in Maryland. He used to come to me to get help solving the problems. I gave him some tips. But he would come to me repeatedly to me so I can do everything for them. I was so nice to the point he left the class right after I finish my own exam. He was asking me help for the problems he could not solve during the exam. In my mind I was telling him: "Bitch what the fuck is wrong with you?? Can't you see that I want to relax after such stress I undergone in the exam? Were that fucking lazy to even do your part? Have you even practice when I am not helping you?" I helped him anyway because I was actually that nice. You know people always say that if you are nice, people will be nice back to you. That is so not true. You can be nice to a certain extent. Sometimes, you have to be an asshole to be taken seriously. That is exactly what Shi zu is doing with FMK. He is not being at fault. He needs to support his family and himself. Do not blame him if he asked something in return. Actually give him props because the Martial Arts has even less value than video games too if you look how much money the video games industry make. I am now at the point of my life when I am thinking about selling my PS3. I do not know whether or not it is a good decision but I see the irrelevance of it. I am sorry if I wrote with a lot of profanity but I was just speaking from the heart. When you are being real, dirtiness will come into play. Thanks for reading and I hope this get you to think about your own life.
Thanks Kang. Interesting that you associated spectating with freeloading. Thought I've spoken and written against the way people spectate so much instead of do-ing, I never correlated it with freeloading. But when you think about it in those terms, if definitely is a form of freeloading another's experiences
ReplyDeleteYeah it is kind of freeloading. I am sorry if I used too much profanity. I was just being as real as I can. At the time when the guy used me to get his math problems right, I was really disappointed. I cannot tell you how mad I was. I should have charged him money since the start.
DeleteWhen you said you thought about selling your ps3, you reminded me of myself two years ago. I was going in a detachment phase and i sold my tv, my entire movie collection and video game collection. I had all the Super Nintendo classics and much more, around 170 games and 100 movies. I thought i would feel good and detatch but that detachment wasn't natural, i forced it into myself and felt like shit after. You can have video games and play here and there without spending your entire days on the tv set. Like you can watch a sports games without getting crazy about it and start watching every single one of them. But man, you right as hell, you can see those guys for exemple fighting themselves in the cage and people in the crowd starts booing! Like what the fuck? You ass is siting on a chair confortably while these guys beat the shit out of each others, theses fans are dumb as fuck. As for the Ps3 you can sell it, if you regret it later you can always buy another one but think twice before selling anything, i'm just saying.
ReplyDeleteYes you are right. I should think twice before doing such thing. I do not want to feel bad after doing such thing. The detachment would not be natural. Anything against nature will come to an end. I guess that I can watch the games without being a fanatic. I can play video games without spending too many hours playing it. Thanks for the advice man.
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DeleteGreat Post, I really enjoyed reading it. I am very glad that you have learned to express yourself on this blog, it really helps others get to know you and learn from your experiences. I know we don't speak on the phone much any longer, but I much prefer to communicate through this blog as it will benefit the kwoon greatly and it is most efficient for me as I do not have much time to speak on the phone. I'm glad that freeloader philosia video had inspired you to write this post.
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