regeneration

OK, so I had a bad day. I wanted to hit someone this morning. This afternoon I wanted to walk out of work. I was also sick of this Japanese stuff and wanted to walk away from it, call it another one of my stupid temporary obsessions, and give it up.

Then I calmed down a little bit.

Then I tested myself on some of the kanji I’ve recently learned…and failed. I got mad at myself and threw the graph paper down and said ’screw it’.

Then I remembered a song by Robbie called ‘Don’t Give Up’. I queued it up and it encouraged me. If you need encouragement, do pop over here and click on the second song down. It’s good.

After listening to that song, I picked up the graph paper and wrote the kanji that I had choked on (’tongue’ (舌) and ‘hundred’ (百)) down a few dozen times. I re-tested and did a little better. And I’m going on.