3 literary moments

1.  passing French 5 conversational class in high school:  Barely passed because to be honest i stopped caring about having the bilingual ability to fluently speak a second language by about french 3.  additionally since french 2 the teachers had been nearly incompetent at seriously teaching a second language.  When i finally took the final all the words and things i thought i had forgotten rushed back to me in a flash of knowledge and i passed with fairly reasonable to average test grades.

2.  teaching myself to play guitar:  from the age of about 16 i taught myself the fundamentals of guitar and for the first year the only sounds coming out of my guitar was a discordic mess of jumbled notes and chords, but another year and a half or so later i have had a musical literary moment and can i am atleast better/begun learning intermediate level things.

3.  Getting my black belt:  I took taekwondoe since the age of 11 and got my black belt at 14 and a half.  The test is 2 parts and about 8 hours long.  It is necessary to know the language of the art and after the 3+ years training and studying it I was ready and passed the test easily.  The language of combat must instilled into your every breath until it is simply instinct.  until your body speaks the language fluently, so to speak.

Malcom X

Prison.  Isolated detainment from society where all criminals and murderers come together all for one reason.  They have, for the time being, been deemed unfit to walk the streets and coexist in society.  Malcom X, emprisoned for burglary and had a previous record of petty crimes and common criminal acts.  From an outside viewing source the man known as Malcolm Little (at the time) would have looked like just another person going down a path leading to nowhere, but it would be unlikely to expect that he would have ended up the influential civil rights leader of a generation.  It just goes to show that knowledge can change the entire path and direction of your life and if Malcom X never opened a book in prison and chose to learn he probably would died another nameless person.  Since he made the conscious choice to become enlightened and empowered by knowledge, I now am writing about him.  He details his struggles in prison to educate himself and how he personally made the decision to change something about where he was in life.  It turns out, it made all the difference.  knowledge is power... cliched but proves true in many a case.