Sunday, August 15, 2010
Classes Starting soon
We've been out for summer, but classes are starting again soon! Unfortunately, i've got graduate classes during one of the Aikido meetings so i'll only be able to go once a week. :\ Once a week is better than not at all a week right?
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Press onward!
It's been a while since i've posted. Doesn't matter - no one reads this anyway. :p But yes, i've been without much to say of late. Odd, since I talk so much.
Anywho, Aikido practice continues as always. I haven't been an amazingly good student of late.. things keep conspiring to keep me out of class, but I am trying. It's hard when class starts twenty minutes after I get off work. Nevertheless - we press on!
That's the thought for today I suppose. Press on! No matter what, just continue on. The other week a friend online told me that he felt bad because he'd failed again in trying to stop smoking. He had got seven weeks without a smoke, but had just found a pack in his house and smoked one. I said to him "So what?"
Yes... so what? He smoked a cigarette, but that isn't failure. To stop now and continue smoking would be failure. To throw the pack away and go another 7 weeks without smoking would be a success.
The point is - you haven't failed until you stop trying. The same applies to going to class. You miss a day and feel bad about it.. it isn't good, but so what? What do you do in response? Do you miss another day.. then another..and then finally stop going? Or do you, instead, just go back to class and try not to miss any other days? So long as you press onward, so long as you continue trying your best - then you have not failed.
So, go to class - or at least, keep trying to.
Anywho, Aikido practice continues as always. I haven't been an amazingly good student of late.. things keep conspiring to keep me out of class, but I am trying. It's hard when class starts twenty minutes after I get off work. Nevertheless - we press on!
That's the thought for today I suppose. Press on! No matter what, just continue on. The other week a friend online told me that he felt bad because he'd failed again in trying to stop smoking. He had got seven weeks without a smoke, but had just found a pack in his house and smoked one. I said to him "So what?"
Yes... so what? He smoked a cigarette, but that isn't failure. To stop now and continue smoking would be failure. To throw the pack away and go another 7 weeks without smoking would be a success.
The point is - you haven't failed until you stop trying. The same applies to going to class. You miss a day and feel bad about it.. it isn't good, but so what? What do you do in response? Do you miss another day.. then another..and then finally stop going? Or do you, instead, just go back to class and try not to miss any other days? So long as you press onward, so long as you continue trying your best - then you have not failed.
So, go to class - or at least, keep trying to.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Beginning Again
Ah, classes resume today. Today will be a good day... I imagine we'll spend the entire time going over the most basic of basic things with the new students, but that's alright. It's just going to be nice to get to start back up. Besides which, i'll finally get to strut around a little in my new black belt. ;-) Heh, just a little.
I still haven't gotten a hakama, they're expensive and I still have other things (debts) to pay off. But i'm getting close to being in the clear - and that hakama is looming ever nearer!
I still haven't gotten a hakama, they're expensive and I still have other things (debts) to pay off. But i'm getting close to being in the clear - and that hakama is looming ever nearer!
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