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Positive Energy (for the most part).
Mar. 18th, 2004 11:54 pmYes, seems to be spring alright.
Yesterday, I decided I had to catch a few sun rays, so I went onto the roof with my books. Had a rather amusing afternoon watching the kids on the playground underneath. They were playing soccer in the most chaotic manner possible. After about half an hour of wild disorder, the (probably) oldest, (probably) most intelligent boy called a break, made two teams, removed two out of three balls from the game and then recommenced. It goes without saying that from then on, the game was much less chaotic, and there were much less arguments. I just wonder whether they'd have played in five teams with three balls on the same two goals all afternoon if that boy hadn't taken the command. I mean, it took half an hour until one of them realized that by reducing the ammount of balls in the game, there might be less mix-ups, by having fixed teams there might be less arguments. But it was fun to watch group dynamics at work.
For some reason, though I could see everyone (except for the person who was drumming somewhere out of sight), no one saw me. And it was not like I was hidden. I was sitting in plain sight on that roof. But I remember having read that people don't tend to look up very often unless there is a specific reason to do so. I wonder why.
Today at Kyûdô pracice,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kaneda and I got to shoot for the 28 meters! Which is quite a long way and rather scary. We didn't do too bad, even, although our bows are much too light, so the arrows would drop after 23 meters or so and skid towards the mato from there. Well, most of the time they were quite in the middle, at least. And I cheated twice by pointing the arrow too high (that is, higher than you usually do in Kyûdô), which promptly resulted in hits at the mato. Yesh.
Hm. Actually I didn't want to write about anything negative today, because it doesn't help much anyway. But this one bothers me still. Some people think I talk too much, some people think I talk too little, some people think I talk about the wrong things. It shouldn't bother me because I'm not better as far as other people are concerned, but it does. Hurt pride. Whatever.
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( Positiv denken, Särge schenken. )
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Yesterday, I decided I had to catch a few sun rays, so I went onto the roof with my books. Had a rather amusing afternoon watching the kids on the playground underneath. They were playing soccer in the most chaotic manner possible. After about half an hour of wild disorder, the (probably) oldest, (probably) most intelligent boy called a break, made two teams, removed two out of three balls from the game and then recommenced. It goes without saying that from then on, the game was much less chaotic, and there were much less arguments. I just wonder whether they'd have played in five teams with three balls on the same two goals all afternoon if that boy hadn't taken the command. I mean, it took half an hour until one of them realized that by reducing the ammount of balls in the game, there might be less mix-ups, by having fixed teams there might be less arguments. But it was fun to watch group dynamics at work.
For some reason, though I could see everyone (except for the person who was drumming somewhere out of sight), no one saw me. And it was not like I was hidden. I was sitting in plain sight on that roof. But I remember having read that people don't tend to look up very often unless there is a specific reason to do so. I wonder why.
Today at Kyûdô pracice,
kaneda and I got to shoot for the 28 meters! Which is quite a long way and rather scary. We didn't do too bad, even, although our bows are much too light, so the arrows would drop after 23 meters or so and skid towards the mato from there. Well, most of the time they were quite in the middle, at least. And I cheated twice by pointing the arrow too high (that is, higher than you usually do in Kyûdô), which promptly resulted in hits at the mato. Yesh.Hm. Actually I didn't want to write about anything negative today, because it doesn't help much anyway. But this one bothers me still. Some people think I talk too much, some people think I talk too little, some people think I talk about the wrong things. It shouldn't bother me because I'm not better as far as other people are concerned, but it does. Hurt pride. Whatever.
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( Positiv denken, Särge schenken. )
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