Today's motivation comes from Naruto. Personally, I never really liked Naruto that much. As far as I'm concerned, Naruto was just Dragon Ball Z for kids who were just too young to grow up watching DBZ. Naruto did take some influence from DBZ. Just look at Naruto. That yellow hair and that orange suit makes him look similar to Goku.
I caught a few episodes when it was still on Toonami in my college years. Naruto did a good job developing some of the characters. The most memorable back story I remembered was Rock Lee's story. As a little kid, he went to ninja academy and was either one of the worst performing pupils or the worst. In the anime, I guess that ninjas have three different types of skills. There is nin-jutsu, gen-jutsu, and tai-jutsu. Nin-jutsu and gen-jutsu is probably magic for ninjas. In the anime, different ninjas can create clones, breath fire, manipulate bugs, control sand, or summon giant toads from the sky. Rock Lee has no Nin-jutsu or Gen-jutsu so he can do none of this cool stuff. Tai-jutsu is all martial arts and this is Rock Lee's only option. As a young kid, Rock Lee wasn't really good at martial arts either.
Needless to say, Rock Lee was coming up with a severe handicap. It is hard to think of a good analogy to explain his situation. It is like trying to play tennis when your opponent has a racket and you don't. That was Rock Lee's situation. Despite all of this, Rock Lee still wanted to become a great ninja. So he trained. And he trained a lot.
He spent all the time he could pounding away at tree trunks to develop his strength. Eventually, he becomes capable or doing insane physical things. His Tai-jutsu surpassed most of his peers.
I remember something Razorbladekandy said in one of his videos. When you are a man, you have to take all of your available resources and opportunities and work like MacGyver in order to make something happen. It is either that or starve to death and perish. The world won't show you a lot of sympathy.
During Rock Lee's training, he has his doubts about himself and his ability. His mentor helps him work through those doubts. Even though Rock has his short comings and is outclassed by his peers, Rock has one thing still going for him. Rock has the determination to keep working towards his goals.
He has the determination and the will to become great even if it means working every day. Even when it hurts and the fist bleeds. Even when severe injuries may happen, Rock has to endure it all.
In the last scene of the fight against Gara, it looks like the fight was won with Gara taking the win. Rock was able to get up and continue fighting even though he was bleeding from the arm and sides. His mentor was surprised that Rock was able to get up, but then he discovered that Rock Lee was still unconscious. Rock was knocked out but his body had enough muscle memory to get up and keep fighting.
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