A little abstract

It is expected that martial arts would teach you to fight. Or get you into better shape. Or to keep you coordinated. But there's also the part where it teaches you about differing temperaments. To understand different styles and methods to manipulate their results. Executing techniques at a subtle level and in a precise fashion. Then listening very, very closely for a result so as to take the next step.

It's like walking through a series of passageways. One which few people know exists. It has doors and windows that open and close. Sometimes at random and others by your own volition. Some are locked, but most simply appear that way. You’re just trying to get from one side to the other.

So what I’m really trying to say is that martial arts also makes you delusional. Thinking that you’ve experienced adventures which couldn’t possibly be real. :-p