I first started playing Go at the age of 17 on an Anime-Convention. I was an active player on KGS for about a year, then I stopped because I didn't enjoy it anymore - I was frightened of losing or making mistakes (which may have been my biggest one) and was too focused on improving my rank.
Now, about 9 years later, I fell in love with the game again. Since the end of May I played every day and continued reading my old Go books, solving tsumego again, making friends at the Go servers and so on. This time I wont let myself prevent me from having fun. Of course I still want to become stronger, but I "permit" myself to make mistakes and lose games - it's just part of the game and the learning experience and will help me to improve.
So, here I am.
I hope to find/give some advice, interesting discussions and contacts connected to Go.
and I realized that losing against, say, 5 stones on 9x9, really doesn’t mean that I dramatically failed—it means rather that my teaching is successful 
Well, I hope I've grown up now. Making my steps forwards or backwards public with a Blog is kind of an exposure therapy 
