My heart refused to believe, but my head put everything on the shelves, and... believe it or not. When you realize that everything was decided without you behind your back, you realize that you were just betrayed, it's very hard. I guess that's the kind of lesson you need in life. Maybe... it's not up to us to decide. You had a loved one, and you didn't have a loved one... I remember that I couldn't eat or sleep for a few days then. What was going on around me, I don't remember... And in my head, there was a stream of incessant thoughts, thoughts, thoughts.....
And then suddenly, as if all the feelings had burned down. They burnt down like a dry deadwood and burned to the ground. But one woman made all the other women of the beautiful sex, in my eyes, unworthy people, at least, not worthy of my attention.
Not having withstood the trials of life at the collapse of the country in the early nineties, my wife, accusing me of all mortal sins, safely found another man, standing firmly on his feet, with a tight purse. She took care of her future.
Therefore, as a result, I had no business, no job, and no family. Eventually, my ex-partner and ex-wife, as I thought, were close to me, erased from my memory: life has taken its course. And it is impossible to live only in the past. Indeed, I did not want to build a new family yet because I had a bad experience in the past. When you are betrayed and deceived, and it turns out that you are also to blame for this and everything else, too (I couldn't, couldn't and couldn't do any other demagogy) - you never want to be so happy with your family again. And still, I found a job and did not regret that I had to go to work for my "uncle". I was lucky with my "uncle", he wasn't the worst person, paid on time, and didn't hold back much. The team was not big, but rather friendly, working as a team. The profile of the work, though, has changed, but it's trifles.
The next day at work all a little bit, but quite vividly, with interest discussed yesterday's adventure, the boss even promised to help if there would be a need to solve the issue with the bandits. He even called his guards: "The lawlessness on the roads, help to understand. Of course, they calmed down at once, because they are the coolest, will deal with anyone. They broke through the guards I met on the big road. So much for the organization, of the averages. They cover several traders. The founders of a security company made up of former middle-level "cops". They have connections at the top. In gangster showdowns, they are not especially noticed. They are friends with the law. In general, there were no special reasons for concern. But for some reason, I have not added calmness. People's words and deeds do not always coincide. Once I got used to relying only on myself with age: life taught me.
In the evening, under the impression of what had happened, I began to reminisce about what the coach taught me by the wushu. There was a time, I was seriously engaged in wrestling, for some reason I had a strong craving for knowledge of Eastern and Western martial arts. But God, how long has it been, so much time has passed! Though the body remembers what to do, but it can't. Flexibility has gone away, zero stretch marks, power has melted, years take their own... What can you do, after so many stresses - a long, quiet life of an ostrich? I used to be able to push-off fifty times without much effort (it was generally the norm for being a little bit provincial in training), but now I barely had thirty push-ups, and my heart jumped immediately, my muscles fell asleep. Still, more than five years passed since I gave up all my training. Yes, and his own business selected a lot of health and nerves.
As a young man, while I wanted to be cool, I practiced judo, karate and then the wushu. Strange as it may seem, I achieved results very quickly. The stamina and instantaneous reaction that amazed everybody was always my skate. Coach by Wushu, or rather, as it was fashionable to say then, "teacher", even wondered about my abilities. Especially when he began to teach us to work with internal energy, the good thing was that he was taught by some Chinese man. Everybody was puffed up, and I, of course, did, too. Everybody tried to imagine how this energy runs through the body, and that the sin of melting down was very much wanted to learn how to work with invisible, but ubiquitous energy. Only, none of the students could show the possibilities of the energy sector...
Generally speaking, even the coach himself did not succeed. And one day, when I extinguished a candle in a closed glass jar (and that was the result!), the coach himself was the most surprised. And for a long time, I tried to find out how I did it. How do I know? As taught, so did I! They taught that it is possible, you will get it! They taught me to imagine myself being a ball in motion during sparring, so I was a ball. As a result, all of the other people's blows, without touching my body, slipped through the surface of the ball. It was enough for my body reaction to translate a direct blow into a glancing blow. I even got a funny nickname for it - a slippery guy.
Yes, there was time! In general, I liked to study with my wushu. And feel the energy in my body. Even if someone had invented it.
Continued in the next episode.