By the time this posts, it'll be near the end of my fourth week in Victoria. I've been making a new ninja lid at the start of the each week, and been having fun applying themes to them.
The picture above is this week's ninja, and I have yet to settle on a theme, though I'm getting close: it's something along the lines of Hope or Possibility, which I'm starting to think are the same thing. Hope, I figure, is the emotion you experience when you see possibility. I've begun to see the possibilities for my future, whether that's school, work, or hobbies, and it makes me hopeful.
Not that this week-long meditation on hope and possibility has all been wonderful, of course. Sunday night I was actually quite emotionally distraught, because I lost my sense of hope about certain things--namely, I lost faith that a 36-year-old man with little dating experience could ever find a partner amongst the jaded ex-wives and mothers who currently dominate the age-appropriate dating space. Without the ability to see possibilities for positive outcomes, I lost hope.
Examining the possibilities for my future education and career was quite cool, though. There are many exciting options. This is what shook me out of my negative mood, because I could again see the possibilities. And whether that's being a TV writer or a kinesiology student, I realized I would still be a pretty cool guy, doing pretty cool things, hanging out with pretty cool colleagues. The future looks fun again.
Related to ninjas and depictions thereof, I'd like to change my check-ins so they better fit the ninja theme that I started this blog with. The content will be nigh identical, but the arrangement will change. Instead of physical, willpower, emotional, social, I will start breaking things down this way:
- Body
- Exercise
- Diet (and water)
- Sleep/Rest
- Mind
- Learning new facts
- Training new skills
- Concentration (willpower)
- Spirit
- Emotionally uplifting experiences
- Social contact
- Sense of accomplishment (willpower resulting in the completion of a task)
I'll have to just try the new format for a while to see if it works well. If not, it can be reverted. I just think it would be fun to pursue my ninja training as a pursuit of body, mind, and spirit, a trinity that makes a lot of intuitive sense to me.
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