I hope not one of you is here looking to get something for nothing. You gotta work to earn. You gotta train to win. You gotta go hard and play hard. Got it?

She locked her eyes into mine. No translation needed. I stood and held my hand out to assist her up the last step. She never let it go....I didn’t know what my next move would be. I had suspended my thoughts and was moving only on feelings, something completely new for me... I felt foolish standing there with no words in the middle of a storm of energy moving back and forth between us...

“Nature works perfectly alone,”my father said. “It is only the abuses of human beings that can alter that.”

It took me a few seconds to understand a mother telling her son to ignore his own fathers instructions. I actually never heard that before.

I liked seeing Sudana. She made me feel at home. She was subtle, sweet, and careful, not a high-powered vacuum cleaner like the American girls who came at me all day long, titties first and ass out, nice looking but way too much way too quick, only to find out she’s really nothing at all.

If you go outside, you can find a thousand stones on the ground. They are lying around everywhere. You can just pick any one of them up anytime and put it right into your pocket, or throw it back into the ground. Or do whatever you like with it. It has no value, so no one cares. But when a stone is a precious jewel, it is surrounded and protected. You’ll have to work very hard to earn it and even harder to keep it for yourself.

Now that you are becoming a man, things will be more complicated than they have ever been. You will have strong urges and feelings pulling you in every way. But you should not become a servant to your desires...a man should not try to eat from every dish.

...and for this reason, I have chosen to train you in weapons. I have watched you. You retain information that others forget. You have developed very nicely. I know that you are not a predator and will not abuse the knowledge that I will offer to you. You now show the discipline, the focus, and have the mind to become a great defender and protector of life...

....she seemed to be a female who plans and thinks ahead. Everything she wore and possessed, down to the smallest items, seemed to be carefully chosen. She paid close attention to details and preferred everything she wore, used and surrounded herself with to be unique. It added to her elegance...

I think we all chose this martial arts school for similar reasons. It was authentic. Our teacher was actually from Japan, where the art form originated. He taught us things that were important to our survival and didn’t feed us a lot of bullshit. I admired that Sensei was a quiet man but very deadly. He made it clear to each of us,who survived his tryouts, that he trained level-headed boys to become killers in the name of self defense and, at the highest level, to become ninjas. He told us in his presentation that “ the difference between a samurai warrior and a ninja, is a samurai is trained to carry out orders, while a ninja is trained to think for himself, master flexibility, execute, and finish off his enemy.”