Yes, you read right. This blog is coming to an end. After a bit of mulling over I have decided to close the Urban Samurai Blog down for good. It didn’t take me long to come to this decision and in fact the decision more or less made itself, which suggests to me that this little soapbox of mine was ready to be respectfully dismantled anyway. It has, for me, run it’s course and it is time to move on.
At this point in the proceedings I wish to devote most of my time to other things, like my martial arts training and my own personal development. I just feel that I’d be better serving myself and others by devoting my time to those two pursuits and the fact of the matter is, running a blog is quite a bit of work and it eats up quite a bit of time and energy, two things I need a lot more of at the moment in order to pursue my training goals and my own development as a person. Besides that, I feel that I’ve went as far as I can with this particular blog and I can’t envisage it growing any further.
This is not to say you won’t be hearing from me again in the future. In fact I’m already formulating plans for another site, but one with a different focus and one which reflects where I am at now and will be in the future. At the moment, I can’t say when this new site will appear. When it’s good and ready too is my honest opinion on that and not before.
So now I’d just like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have followed this blog from the start and who have taken the time to read and comment on the articles I’ve published here. I’ve learned a great deal from the experience and I’ve enjoyed conversing with all of you this past year or so. It’s been a blast.
Anyway, I wish every one of you all the very best and I hope you all take care of yourselves until we can talk shop again in the near future.
Yours in Budo,
Neal Martin.
