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	<title><![CDATA[The calm before the grading.]]></title>
	<body><![CDATA[Grading tomorrow, for gokkyu. 

I was at the dojo tonight, and I just sat there in the darkness while the others changed. It was like... as the lights went down I could see myself all those months ago, preparing for 6th kyu. I remembered the frustration and the joy, the pain and the ecstacy that I felt back then. I thought of my now-self in parallel, and realised that all those emotions and sensations are still there. There, but different. Like a spiral, the same but different. 

I have come full circle again, and I will again, and again. And next year, I will look back and marvel at the depth every new turn has brought since this moment.

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	<date>07-22-2011</date>
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