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I was promoted to blackblt tonight.

I'm he fifth person that my instructor ha ever promoted to blackbelt in his thirty-three years f teaching martial arts...

Some schools give em away like party favors. To get one from my instructor, to be singled out as one of his five most important students ever, is beyond all doubt the greatest honor I've ever received in a lifetime of martial arts training...

A monumentous moment... but it's trivial when compared to the changes taking place within my mind and body...

I've escaped a cocoon of comfort and emerged into a world of chaos... I'm a whole new being... something like I was half a decade ago, and something like some entirely different creature...

Chaos is sexy, fun, and terrifying... I'm loving it like nothing else...