Hungry ghosts

Students often write lovely feedback concerning their experiences in class.
They express gratitude and respect; without reserve.
Yet this very same person a few months later decides to quit...

Rather than feel like a failure, the student blames the class, the master, other students, work commitments.
Often they become jaded, angry, bitter, resentful and spiteful.
They desire to lash-out and cause hurt.
To indulge a mean-spirited need to externalise their own self-loathing.

These tormented souls may spend many more years on the periphery of the tai chi world seeking to re-capture something they imagine was taken from them.
Sadly, the lack is in themselves.
Their reasons for quitting class, their subsequent shame and ultimate bad feeling says more about the quitter than it does about the class they left.