Memoir- Time in my life

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KARATE AND THE HIJAB

Language and identity work hand in hand in creating an individuals person, and they cannot be separated since language identifies you in terms of the way you think, speak and your perspective on different ideas and thoughts, they could be your own or someone else. Language allows you to communicate in a different way, although language to me is not just represented using words through reading yourself and reading other people through movements and techniques, to me karate was a language.
     
Karate is a sport that has a played a big part in my life and shaped me into who I am today, I've been playing karate for 8 years currently, and still continue to play, although there was a very challenging part of my life in which I started to wear the hijab, I was focused not only on the opinion of others but what I thought of myself.  The feeling of my own identity was a challenge and exposing it to the faces and thoughts of others. When finally reaching the 8th grade I was able to wear the hijab and walk around as if I was still the same person, I felt a strong and different identity spark up in my life, Although there was something missing and that was karate.

 Karate for me was a way of communicating my thoughts and ideas through techniques and planning my movements in a different way, and the same goes for my opponents, it felt as though I could understand what they were planning and how they felt in terms of the techniques they used as they played. Karate for I was a form of communication and language and served as part of my identity. That is why when I started to wear the hijab the change in my identity made me feel as though I was not fit for karate so I stopped for a few months. With this, I realized that I was missing a big part of my identity and that my hijab didn't cover 'my language'. although you cannot cover language with a simple change in a small aspect of your identity, this is when I realized that it was important for me as an individual to expose my identity as well as communicate in the way that I love and not through the eyes of another.

All in all, Karate for me was a way of communication where I understand myself further and dive into the personalities of other through their movements, And the hijab was something I was able to overcome, and I learned that language shapes identity and identity shapes language. Furthermore, I understood the importance of being able to communicate with other not only through the use of words but through the emotions being portrayed in a given movement, or by a facial expression in which you can understand the someone might think in a given time.

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