Since I’ve said I can compare anything to tai chi I guess I would have to say yes, but I really do think the two are very much alike in more ways than you might at first imagine. Tai chi, like love, is often not what we think it is at first. New students usually think tai chi is a simple exercise they can learn fairly quickly and practice without needing to think about it. Young’uns usually think love is something they can “find” and then have forever.
Tai chi, like love, takes a lot more effort than we realize at first, but when we get it… oh does it ever payoff. Love, like tai chi, if we’re willing to work at it without having too many preconceptions, requires more allowing than work, oh but when we get it…
The question I have for you is, “Are you working too hard at learning tai chi?” If you’re working too hard at tai chi, or love for that matter, chances are you “don’t got it yet.” Tai chi is mostly about accepting your body for what it is and letting it teach you what you need to know. Love is about accepting someone who makes your heart sing for who they really are, and then letting them teach you about yourself, and them. See, they’re practically the same thing. 
“Ambition is like love, impatient of both delays and rivals.” ~ Buddha
How ambitious are you in your tai chi practice? Accepting things for how they are and moving forward from there is what makes both tai chi and love work, not to mention making them worth the effort. Your thoughts?
John
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Sheldon (75 comments)
527 days ago
I love that “acceptance” to just allow the love or taichi to grow and evolve within you.
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.” – Bruce Lee
John Crewdson (479 comments)
524 days ago
Sheldon,
Beautiful quote from Bruce Lee. I hadn’t heard it before. I think acceptance is a key to learning everything.
John
Jane Scripps (1 comments)
365 days ago
This learning is not necessarily something you expect to get out of Tai Chi, but yes it is true. Tai Chi provides the opportunity to learn so much about yourself first and foremost and then about you and your others, phew; didn’t see that coming.