How WARRIOR'S WAY saved my LIFE!

When the living couldn't do it, the DEAD could!

The way of the warrior has been a forced lifestyle for me since the age of 10. I didn't choose it, however I was never one to complain about it. Whatever feats my high-risk life demanded of me, I accepted and answered without hesitation or fear, out of spite. I never took even a moment to feel sorry for myself, or question why things were the way that they were for me and not others. In time, these sporadic moments and events of extreme intensity became such an expected norm to me, that I started to crave them. Of course, this led me to become reckless in my acts and mindless in my thoughts. Death was a simple dare to me that I had yet faced off with.

No living person could convince me that my code of ultimate fearlessness was in any way wrong or weak. I defined my outlook on life as superior over the fragile, unreliable, virtues of the masses of weak, cowardly people who made up the majority of the world. I feared no man and I sought the guidance or approval of no man. I had everything to prove to myself and everyone else who doubted me and that was all that mattered. I had nothing to lose, and nothing to gain. The only thing that I owned, believed in, and valued was my reputation. I even valued it above my own life. Until I was introduced into a NEW way that taught me the true value of my life. The ways of the warriors.

The structures, codes, commitments, sacrifices, manners, and mindsets of our ancient ancestral warriors possessed the power while in death to do for the living, that which no one alive could do. SAVE MY LIFE!

The ethics and etiquette of the warrior enlightened me to a new way to view, define, calculate, and more importantly, to "desire" strength. Through the ways of the warrior, I learned to value the lives and existence of others which in turn opened my eyes to finally see the value of my own life. The strength of the warrior doesn't come from himself; it comes from all of those whose lives he holds in high esteem. The strength of the warrior is that of the thousands of men, women and children that he cares for. He is never afraid, never weak, and he is never alone. My adoption of these warrior ways opened me to capture, assess, illuminate, and finally liberate myself from the enabling comforts of my arrogance, fear, and selfishness. The purge of this weight opened me to experience TRUE fearlessness, that is driven by confidence instead of anger. Confidence that advantages my life still today with The WARRIOR'S EDGE.