Becoming a Knight is not easyhttp://www.confreriedesaintgeorges.org/en/articles/02-becomingAKnight.html"Becoming a Knight is not easy. It’s a long, continuous process, and a difficult, sometimes painful one. It starts not with the dubbing or the diploma, the approval of your peers or the accolade of the Grandmaster - it starts when you think of yourself as a Knight for the first time. Maybe you have always done so, from childhood; maybe you’ve grown into the role gradually. Or maybe, as I did, you went through life emotionally oblivious of how stern a teacher it could be, until lightning struck close and personal loss, or the pain of those you cherish, made you realise that you could either stick your head back in the sand and wait for the next storm, or stand up at last and face it, do what you could, not because it would necessarily change anything, but because at least you’d be trying.
In the end, the path you take doesn’t matter much. The destination is important, not where you started. As long as you walk on, you’re trying.
If you’re already one of us, as you walk this path I salute you my brother, my sister. If you are not in the Confraternity but have already started this journey, or wish to do so, then I say: welcome. It is a long road, a hard road; and the world needs you to walk it. With us, or not - but walk it. We can use the help.
I know I do."
