Presumption........

Soji.....cleaning
I use my time engaged in soji to ponder over things.....
Human nature, my nature, am I doing better today than yesterday, is my training going in the direction I want it to, and so on.
So all this is present and future. I also use my time doing Soji to reflect..... the choices I've made, the positive and/or negative impact  I have, do I have an impact at all, and either way does it matter?

My limited understanding of Budo is to look at oneself through training.....

I was once told that I had had a 'Glimpse' of what Karate is,  which would suggest that I  didnt really know.
That's ok as I find other people attempt to speak for me all the time without really knowing what goes into anything I'm doing or even what my own thoughts about things are.

It would be easy to presume that this wasnt self inflicted or that it wasn't the result of hundreds of strikes...... 

It's a presumptuous world we live in where others would seemingly know the depths of someone else's psyche, when in actuality opinion is usually based on how an individual wants it to fit in with their own views and rarely on factual experience or first hand knowledge of something or someone.

The physical skill of Karate can be easily seen, but the emotion, thoughts and feelings going on inside a Karateka as they practice is something entirely different.

In any form of training it would be impossible to detect through the lens of an onlooker as to when a person felt like giving up and yet there they are still doing whatever it is they are doing. What pain or suffering was being masked by the will to simply carry on and do their best.

Presumption.....and assumption..... all they ever achieved or helped do was nothing.....