Who is your Superman? For this young man, I would venture to guess his grandfather who will always be there for him.
"I can't unfeel your pain
I can't undo what's done
I can't stand back the rain
But if I could I would
My love, my arms are open"
"So when you feel like you can't
take another round of being broken
My arms are open
And when you're losing faith
and every door around you keeps on closing
My arms are open"
-ARMS OPEN by THE SCRIPT
I always like to stumble across interesting photos or stories. This one was taken in Barfield Park (Murfreesboro, TN).
Medieval combat is a sport that few maybe familiar with. However, you may have seen it unfolding at a local park and you failed to recognize exactly what was going on.
The sport, that involves role-playing as if you were from the Medieval times, is all about taking down your opponent with a sponge sword or perhaps a foam bat of sorts.
A local organization called Dagorhir (pronounced Dagger-Here) meets at Barfield Crescent Park on Sundays and fight. Not fighting that ends in injury, but fighting that ends with a clear winner or a clear loser. It's a game.
In Medieval times there was no acting. Instead, fighters literally fought to the death. Depending on their level of training, some made their fight appear to be a dance the way they jumped, dodged and returned blows with swords and shields in hand.
But in Murfreesboro, they don't fight to the death. They simply reenact such fighting with foam swords and depending on where someone is hit - they either survive and stay in the game or they are, figuratively speaking - killed and are out for the round.
Scott, who goes by the nickname or role-play name of Zaen (Pronounced Zane) stated...
"I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked."
- William Shakespeare
All I heard was, "You don't think I'm strong? Say I'm weak!" A nearby U.S. Army Ranger who was in his sixties looked at me and said, "They're just dancing, that's not a fight... I've seen fights and that's not one." The veteran then laughed and shook his head.
“It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.” ― Alfred Adler
Alfred W. Adler was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. Adler worked closely with Sigmund Freud. Smart would be an understatement.