crezth replied to your post “There’s some stuff I’m gag ordered on, but I’ll just say not to worry...”
That's actually fuckin awesome
I’m pretty excited about this; it’s really hard not to be. It was a good day in general on top of that; we had to practice teaching as a full teacher and while everyone else got to pick what they wanted, I got assigned teaching a more difficult task that wasn’t from the bank of techniques they were allowed to chose to try to teach. It made me feel like people trusted my knowledge on this. And also, getting told you have an exceptionally good rising draw/cut (from right hip to left clavicle, or left hip to right shoulderblade usually, if drawing off the left hip like I do) makes one feel pretty special, too.
But on top of all this, it’s something I’ve wanted to do my whole life. Before I knew really anything else much about myself, or any of my other interests or aspects about my persona or identity, I knew I was a swordsman and wanted to grow up to be one. by age 4-5 I was already consuming mass books about fighting dragons, playing the earliest of JRPGs about it, getting into D+D (if even just to roll dice at dragons), and carrying plastic swords with me everywhere (you never know where a dragon was then, my princess saving days started early). I just knew it’s who I was, who I should be, and what I should always be is someone sen as strong and reliable and really good with a sword. I’m not sure why it clicked for me so hard and when I was so young, but it’s stayed with me since. I’ve been a swordsman longer than I’ve been anything else about me, really.
So what I’m tl;dring here basically is dreams do come true. You just have to be willing to seize opportunity and then work hard to not let it go.
If I can be a legitimized swordsman in 2016, you can do whatever you want to in life.