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Originally posted by Brian649:
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Like the Matrix--that's a movie and a half! He fights better and better the more he loses his fear and sense of self.

[This message has been edited by Brian649 (edited March 22, 2002).]

Neo gains a sense of self, the way I look at it. He doesn't loose it. And yes, he looses fear. It is true that you fight better the more calm you are, which is why two people are able to go at each other at the start of the fight, and are likely to be exhausted by the end. It can be an emmotional workout, as well as a physical one.

And actually, I related to a lot of the views in that movie. I don't find it that strange. Before PRing, I was really into that kind of stuff.

The end of a serious fight is never a good thing. Someone comes out severely hurt. Last year, I got into a fight with a kid named Bert because he wouldn't stop pushing stuff off my desk. I told him to stop several times and so then he pushed me.

"Whacha gonna do about it?" he said.

I responded by punching him in the face. Now the truth is, he was actually a little bit taller than me, and possibly a little bit stronger. I've never thought of myself as a tough guy. So he starts trying to punch me in the stomach, and meanwhile I'm blocking his shots and hitting him in the face. . .sooner of later:he gets me in a headlock.

Thanks to my past training in karate, I had gone through. . .ehhh. . .3 or 4 belts. Helped a lot though. Because then I used a move on him. It turned the whole thing around, and turned it around for good. Twisting his wrist, and throwing him over me onto the ground, I twisted futhur.

He starts crying. . .and so I stop. He's on the ground moaning. Me, quite angry, as you might imagine , get my books and place them on my desk. I sit down and wait for whatever happens next.

Now during this, I said some stuff to Bert, but due to the nature of this forum, I feel it would be inappropiate.

But even though I won that, and that's the excuse that everyone uses to say I'm a good "fighter" or whatever, I'm still pretty scared of fighting. I know for a fact:I can't win every time. . .and besides that, I've got that whole point of view I mentioned on one of my posts above.