"MAYOI NAGARA DEMO II, ARUKI DASHITE" - NARUTO

depending on which subtitler you're relying on, it roughly translates into "IT'S OK TO GET LOST ON THE WAY, BUT YOU GOTTA START WALKING SOMETIME". just recently i've been sucked into watching NARUTO, a relatively new anime series that takes forever to get somewhere, but tells a great story. thanks to dom (wake up!) and jase for bringing this anime to my attention.

but this post isn't about NARUTO.

i was at uni today and saw a flyer from the CBF (christian bible -something) and it said "feel confused? life out of control?", and as i walked past to get to my civil procedure lecture, i was tempted to take out my sharpie permanent marker and write "yeah? well quit bitching and get over it!" as if a 30 minute meeting between classes is going to fundamentally change one's outlook.

over the past week, while i've been seeing a few movies, i've been thinking a lot as well. whenever people ask me things like "how's things?" or "what's up?" i find myself answering quite optimistically. even if there are things bothering me at the time, i know they're only transient and i can usually get over them. but there are somethings that really do shit me up the wall, but sometimes i just accept it and try to live with it.

and from then on, i started to feel a little better. while my life isn't perfect - far from it actually - i'm seeing more of the good parts than the bad. and that's enough to get me through. i've been seeing the guys a little more often now; it had been a while since i have.

things with the comic have been going great; with jase relentlessly working on thumbnails, the roughs for the first issue will be done by the coming weekend. while there have been a few ups and downs, ulitmately we're all still working towards the same goal. i found that my experience in chalkboard has let me see look at things from different perspectives, and that sometimes what's right isn't always a matter of pride.

study-wise, i think i'm finally back in univeristy mode, which means i need to catch up on all the stuff i missed when i wasn't! i think i'll be fine, despite having hundreds of unread pages waiting for me. but i think i can manage, even with the lack of sleep i've been getting lately. meh, we're only young once - better use this body as much as i can before i start not being able to altogether.

"what the hell has this got to do with the title of this post?" i hear you ask? well, here it is...

there are some things that are certain, and others that aren't. if there's something you're after, you're never going to get it unless you start something. and now, if things seem a little grim, "it's ok to get lost on the way" - but you gotta start walking sometime. yeah yeah, i'm a philosophiser now, but i've been thinking about that line in the opening sequence of NARUTO ever since i heard it. it makes so much sense.

"start something."... thanks omer.

-LOki

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