“What do you want to become? Where are you today? What have you accompished or failed to accomplish? Do you have the career you want, the relationships you want? Do you like who your are? Are you happy? Have you realized your dreams and goals?”
“The truth is, you are exactly where you are because of the way you answered “Who am I?” Why? Because how you answer the question determines what choices you make for yourself moment to moment every day of your life.”
The first time I heard this from Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim, I really didn’t understand this concept. Then I read about it, and thought deeply about it. The more I thought about it, the more I realized the truth it carried.
When I was young, I didn’t ask these questions. I just was guided by what people wanted me to become. I was guided by my parents, and became what they wanted me to become. They sent me to get a good education, and so I got a good education. They wanted to get me involved in sports, and so I got involved in sports, but I had little say in what I was doing.
In my teenage years, this started to change. I started to think and realize I didn’t have to listen to my parents. It was fun to start to listen and learn from others. I started to focus on having fun with my friends? I also, found myself guided by my emotions and hormones. I was brought up to see relationships as a way to a better and happier life, and I wanted to have lots of friends, especially a girlfriend. So, looking back, I was very much guided by my emotions. I didn’t really think about what was best for me. I didn’t think about who I was. I was just haphazardly becoming me, which was unconsciously a product of my surroundings and my environment.
More of the same happened in college. I started to think about what I wanted to do for a career, but I didn’t really know. I found myself partying on the weekends. When I got out of college things changed. I found myself alone in bars, looking up at the ceiling and asking myself, is this what life is all about? There must be more.
Then one day I went to Jung SuWon Academy of Martial Arts. I wanted to find out about me. I knew alittle about the martial arts, and how Masters learned to use their mind and body. I didn’t know what I needed, but I wanted to start to focus on developing me. Then I met Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim. She helped me to realize that I had great powers within, and that I could tap into them. She started training me, and I started to feel this great power. At the same time, Grandmaster help me to start asking myself the deeper question, “Who am I?”. As I asked this question, I started to realize, that I was connected with God and the Universe, and that I wanted to be connected with everything good. I wanted to be connected with helping people and making this world more positive. And, in reality, I was starting to answer the questions “Who am I?” for myself. And the more I asked these questions, and the more I followed this path, and the more I answered these questions, the more I was becoming who I wanted to become. I had the great realization, that I could be in charge of my life, and who I become. That excited me. I had the power to create me!!!
Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim started me on the path of self-discovery. The beautiful path of discovering our inner beauty and talents, and discovering inside that I not only have this power, but that I want to help others find their beauty and power also. I felt so grateful to all those that had helped me. I discovered that to help others I had to inspire others, continue to better myself, and be a good example to others.
I was on the beginning path to self-discovery …. and answering the question “Who Am I”….
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