Childhood Memory

During my childhood, I was very active, playing sports, doing karate, and just being a kid. Eventually, I would have to grow up, and one event that forced me to do so was when I was in those karate days. I was a black belt at age 9, and at that level you have to spar (box) with the older people. From this, I had to man up and score points (you get points for hits just like boxing), even though the people that I would go up against were much larger and hit much harder. I was in karate for one more year, and during that time I kept sparring and won many medals even in the adult division, and from boxing them, I had to grow and toughen up a little bit.