In an island far, far away, lived a young tortoise named Oogway. The Galapagos islands were beautiful and a wonderful place to reside in. But to the young tortoise, it was far from a peaceful paradise.
Oogway was slow and dull. He couldn't keep up with the other faster, more graceful, and the more talented animals. They laughed at him - at his large awkward shell, at the fact that a tortoise like him would go on to live for hundreds of years, but would never amount to much.
Oogway despised the body he was born in. He had retreated into a deep shell - of self-loathing, denial and depression. Sleep, sloth and gratifying pleasures coupled with excessive procrastination soon became his friends - but somehow all that never led him to find lasting peace.
It is indeed wondrous how this little, slow and dull tortoise would go on to become a Warrior of Legends and the founder of Kung Fu.