Fall Seven Times, Stand Up Eight Times

I din't know this phrase was a Japanese proverb. The first time I read it was on this card in high school. I played it in my Goku deck. It's mechanics have nothing to do with starting over, in fact it's just a counterspell that gets exiled after use. I was pulling an eBay order today when I flipped through the DBZ commons to get an energy attack card when I saw it. For whatever reason I thought "Well of course Goku can do this that's his whole bit." You beat a Saiyan to the ground and if they don't die they gain strength instead. In real life you fail at things and just have to move on. You don't automatically get better and continue. I thought of all the stuff I've failed at over the years and it's a tad more than seven. Right after high school I went to the Art Institute in Dallas. I had wanted to be a 2D animator since third grade but by 2002 there wasn't a venue for me to learn it. The Art Institute had 3D animation as an option so I took that. By the second term I was out,…