OUTLINE: True Martial Arts.

            When I was a fifth grade student, I just thought that learning martial arts is to fight or attack other people. At that time, I always wanted to pick a quarrel with my friends so that I could prove that I was good at martial arts. Once I attacked a newcomer boy in my class just because I didn’t like his face, I punched a lot in his face and made his nose bleed. However, surprisingly, he didn’t want to strike back, that boy just wanted to accept failure with resignation. After school, I went home as usual but on the way going home, I was intercepted on the way by three strong hooligans, they all were my victimizer’s brothers and they wanted to take revenge of me. So, I had got a free-for-all fight, at that time I couldn’t do anything except I was driven to dead end. Luckily and surprisingly, I was rescued by the newcomer boy who was attacked by me that morning. After that, I felt ashamed of attacking that boy before. Then I made up my mind to change my opinion about martial arts that: “True martial arts is like philosophy, we learn martial arts to sacrifice and save the human life”. So, learning true martial arts is something useful for our life, it makes us become more gentle and righteous little by little for several reasons.
            But why can martial arts make us more gentle and righteous. First of all, because when we are in a very hard martial arts’ training environment, martial arts tell us what is the great purpose of its learning to reach real martial arts. Indeed, when we are in the difficult martial arts’ training, there are a lot of secrets, oracularities and inaccessibilities in martial arts that make us think them over a lot. For example, my close friend, Tuan, is one of the best martial artists in my class who just know practicing martial arts a lot, but he don’t want to take an exam to get a new higher belt, because he just want to learn martial arts to make his mental and physical strong, and he don’t want to get a black belt to show off to his friends or gain some benefits from that. In my opinion, I think the circumstance mentioned above is something belongs to a real martial arts.Moreover, impacts, challenges, and difficulties in martial arts also help us realize that we are not a good ones in physical and personality because when we learn martial arts, it will help us find out our weak points and strong points, but all of them are simply emanated from our physical and personality .So, to be the best ones, we must perfect ourselves by practicing hard and living selflessly.
            Last but not least, when we get a high level in martial arts, we can easily hurt someone else if we are careless in our actions and behaviors. To avoid doing it, the higher level we get in learning martial arts, the more gentle and righteous we become. Finally, when we’re “full” of abilities in protecting ourselves, we find it responsible to defend people against dangers.

            In conclusion, learning martial arts is a useful mental tool to perfect ourselves to be the best one. When we understand what is a real martial arts, it can make us become more gentle and righteous naturally.