Originally you just had a location
where you trained.
It was not a dojo, rather a stretch
of beach, or a location in a forest, or an instructor’s back yard.
There were no titles, you didn’t need
them, everyone there knew what everyone else there was about. What they knew,
what their skill was.
You did not associate openly with
other training groups, except for those instances where they were already
friends. The training was meant to be private for the group and you were
expected to honor that idea.
I have been nothing but Victor Smith
to the kids, Victor to the friends who
train with me. And I always felt comfortable answering to ‘Hey You’.
We have never talked about rank in
the group. Many of my adult students were never told my rank for most of their years.
I have conducted training in Boys
Clubs and Boys and Girls Clubs, on hillsides and in parks, on narrow bridges,
admist rows of blueberry bushes, Outside
on snowy driveways, on uneven ground, on a row of sections of a tree that was
cut down and many other places.
Always felt my own rank was the least
important thing about me. Sweat equity always mattered more.
Out of politeness I always called
anyone whatever they need to be called.
Names are just words after all.
1. The word is not the thing.
2. The word never describes all the
thing being discussed.
3. Words are self-reflexive, meaning
those words not describing the reality are themselves capable of being seen as
things.
Thus,
1. Words are never the reality which
is the person.
2. Words never describe the whole
person.
3. Words become things themselves.
My own take on General Semantics. A
study to understand how words are used to describe reality.
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