Daruma Days
Sep. 29th, 2003 03:57 pmI recently bought two darumas**, one for my black belt in aikido and one for becoming a professional writer. I've been studying aikido for ten years, and have been an ikkyu (higher rank of brown belt) for almost six of those years (five years ago I hurt my back rather badly, and it didn't heal for a very long time), but now I've decided to take a step and take my black belt test. I've become used to being a brown belt. I know what brown belts do and how they act, and I'm a very good brown belt. But. I'm a brown belt. I need to make that leap in self-confidence and ability. Which brings me to becoming a professional writer. I wanted to be a writer when I grew up, starting in the fourth grade. In the seventh grade I decided I wanted to be a television writer, and in high school I produced and directed (with some friends) a couple of movies. Unfortunately, due to illness in my twenties, I went into computer software instead, but that need to write keep nagging at me. Now that the software market has tanked, what the hell. I'm going to be a television writer. And producer. And the best way to become one, just as the best way to become a black belt, is to decide you are one.
** Japanese figurines with both eyes blank. They represent projects. When you start a new project, you fill in one eye of the daruma, and fill in the other eye when the project is finished.
** Japanese figurines with both eyes blank. They represent projects. When you start a new project, you fill in one eye of the daruma, and fill in the other eye when the project is finished.