Relationships

One of the requirements for I Ho Chuan (IHC) is to mend a relationship. Since I can never think of a relationship that needs mending, per se, I decided that I need to work on nurturing relationships. You see I'm one of those people who doesn't call because I don't want to disturb the person I'm contacting. So the only time I end up calling is when I really need something. You can probably understand what the optics look like for the other person.

So, my goal is to reach out to friends and family, as well as try to establish healthy new relationships. Mostly I want to get in the habit of contacting the people I care about, just because. No other reason, other than to let them know I'm thinking about them. Maybe arrange some socializing time if that is what they want.

This was my goal last year too, and I didn't do it as much as I had intended (no thanks to COVID!). The curious thing is that because it was always written on my IHC tracking the goal of nurturing relationships was presented to me every day and, as a result, has caused me to see some opportunities for nurturing these relationships recently that I wouldn't have seen otherwise. So, even though I didn't do as much work on it as I wanted to it still benefited me to have it written down and see it every day.

I feel like my blog is more about philosophy sometimes than about Kung Fu, but if everything is Kung Fu, well... *shrug*