Life happens when you’re busy making other plans…
So I haven’t posted in a while, and it’s probably
because, well, I’ve actually been doing my hobbies and haven’t had much time to
write about them. So let me provide a
brief update..
·
I’ve moved up a few ranks in karate and am
now a blue belt
·
I’ve started maybe 10,000 knitting projects, and
I think I’ve finished maybe three.
This brings me to the thought of my post for the day and
that is that life gets in the way sometimes. I have downloaded maybe 300
patterns that I want to knit, but have no time to even make a random hat or a
blanket (yea, I owe my brother in law and his new wife a blanket that I started
5 months ago…). At the end of the day
there are just some nights where my eyes can’t focus on a detailed pattern and
my brain cannot hold enough concentration to knit even one row.
I also had a new years’ resolution for 2012 (wow, that
was over a year ago) and set out a very ambitious goal of achieving my red belt
by December of last year. Well, that
didn’t happen. I had some
health issues, work took me everywhere, and I simply didn’t understand the
time commitment it would take for the advanced ranks in my system. It’s okay, though. I am thinking of it this way: I waited at
least 20 years to study the martial arts, which was a childhood dream, ever
since I saw Miss Piggy doing it….
So if I don’t become a black belt tomorrow, it’s okay. In fact, I’d probably want a refund if I was awarded
a black belt today because what would I have learned? I certainly wouldn’t have earned it. I don’t purport myself to be a martial arts
expert by any stretch of the imagination; I’m a student, I’m learning. Sure, it gets frustrating to me when I can’t
nail a kick correctly or forget a small element of a move that seems so
irrelevant to anyone else, but I have enough knowledge at this point to know it
does matter (hello, please keep your guards up). That’s why I’m there. And I guess this is where my lifelong deficit
of being “too loyal”, sometimes to a fault, pays off. I’m loyal to my practice; to quit now would
be an insult both to the time and effort I have put in and the time and effort
of those who have spent time teaching me.
Not that I’m even thinking of quitting—hell no.
That’s my deep thought for the day. Sometimes it’s okay to just know that you
will get there.
