Perspective Today

 There was a lot of ideas rolling around in my brain for a blog today. It was an impromptu one on one today that really churned around. I decided to look back on my very first blog - March 3, 2019. A little more than 3 years ago. How time flies. And how it doesn’t. That very first blog resonates largely with today, but with one big difference. Growth. 

In a nutshell I wrote about struggling to fit everything in, and what changes I needed to make in myself to better deal with the unexpected. Funnily (not really funny) enough since then, we have endured a pandemic, which has caused an avalanche of change in almost every perspective of life. My mom’s health has diminished greatly, and her disease has progressed immensely. My career has taken on many changes. I am now a proud grandma to two beautiful girls. The list goes on in 3 short years. 

My biggest sense of pride is the growth I see from then until now. I still struggle, but instead of looking at it in a negative way, I use it as an affective tool to learn and grow. We have all endured many changes and challenges in the last few years, and I am extremely grateful that SRKF has been in my life. A large part, not just as a place that I go to classes to a few days a week; but the home away from home. My safe place, the place where I can get out of my head. The place that is about me, my growth, my training, and my journey. So it is not just a training hall, but a part of my life that filters into a every aspect of my life. The good, the not so good, the happy and sad. The triumph, and tribulations. The ‘place’ I speak of is not a bricks and mortar building, but rather my life, and all the goings on that happen from day to day. 

Yes, I practice a martial art, yes I enjoy the workouts and physical aspect of what we do. But I am most grateful for the tools I have been given to help improve all that I am, inside and out.

Debbie Bjorkquist