Who you are and what you do are matters of Kung Fu

You certainly remember the expression “Wax on, wax off”, the Karate Kid icon. Back in the day, that film mademy generation dream. It gave you the sensation that you could become whoever you wanted to be. It was only a matter of physical and mental practice.

The teaching given by the story was “do what you have to do, even if you don’t understand why, because sooner or later it will become useful to you”. Usually sequels are disappointing, and the one released in 2010 made no exception.

 However, there’s a message in it that surpasses the original film in regards to the intensity and value of the meaning. It’s not just a matter of sole “practice”, nor of “doing the necessary”, in this scene they talk about “philosophy”.

“Kung Fu lives in everything we do, Shao Dre. It lives in how we put on the jacket, how we take off the jacket. It lives in how we treat people. Everything is Kung Fu”.

Which is your Kung Fu?

You can understand people’s “Kung Fu” (translate it with system of belief, philosophy or culture if concerning businesses) observing how they do little things, how they treat people they don’t need, how they behave far away from the spotlights, perhaps with their family.

Little Dre learnt the technique by putting the jacket on and off, but these words will make him win in the future: Kung Fu lives in everything we do. We can call it “congruence”, or conformity between technique, principle and intention, in any case it’s more powerful than anything else.

I’m tired too about how things are going on. In Italy we see every day that people who win are the ones who only have the technique. They lack the true intention to do some good not only to themselves, but to everybody, and most of all they have lost their heads, the ancient principles, those of our grandparents.

The worst thing is that often they also lack the technique. It’s like if Dre recruited someone to beat the master not worrying about doing push-ups, developing muscles, putting the jacket on and off. In this scenery, money becomes more and more important and it influences the leaders’ choices.

However, the only thing we can do is steering a straight course, dear friend. You, who follow me, think like me, it’s unavoidable: we always surround ourselves with people we deserve. So this time the question is:

What is your Kung Fu?

Mine says: “Don’t do to others what you don’t want others do to you”.

“Do things with great quality, especially when nobody sees you”

“Treat everybody with great respect”

“Think about the impact that your actions will have on others and on the surrounding environment”

“Sometimes get pissed off to gain respect”

You hobble with this philosophy, but Kung Fu is also in the conscience, so I’m sure that this is the right way to proceed for right people, those who will save this world.