Friday 1st July, Yesterday was Thursday 30th June 2016, the day of my Master/Sensei's funeral. It was Wednesday 22nd June at 10:35pm that my martial arts headmaster, Grand Master Shidoshi Graham Whyte passed away from Cancer. As I sit here now typing this after a day's work, sipping my beer, calming down and condensing my thoughts of him...finally can I write something. Fellow students, juniors/seniors of the school, friends of my master were all very emotional, especially his wife Lena. I was bestowed upon the honour of being one of the six pallbearer that carried our Master/Sensei's coffin to prepare him for the journey ahead. Maybe I am not very sensitive to these situations or maybe my peers had a deeper emotional connection with our Master/Sensei, I honestly didn't feel upset...broken or unhappy until the service... You see, the service was held in a Church but with a Japanese twist to it, we the pallbearers remained standing next to our Master/Sensei thro...
From time to time, life throws me a ball, they are hard to catch and at times I fall over...I write because I express better this way, in the past I would bottle everything up and not talk about it. This led to severe changes in my life...I pushed away the girl who loved me more than herself...