Thursday, May 31, 2012
Strong Coffee and some Plastic for Breakfast
One of my inspirations for becoming a freelancer was an article I read from Fine Scale Modeler which was about one of their writers working on a kit for an hour before heading off for work. In the said article, the author (whose name I've sadly forgotten) would wake up an hour early, make himself a strong cup of coffee and put in an hour's worth of model kit building while his kids and wife is still asleep. After an hour he packs up and heads for work.
I envied him a lot.
The kit above is a 1/144 No Grade Gundam Sandrock from the initial Gundam Wing series. It is a very old kit from an old anime series. This one is special to me because Manay (our Nanny who has been with us for more than 30 years) gave this to me way back in college as a random gift. Granted, the orignal kit was horrible but never the less, the Sandrock was my favorite.
The first thing I do when I wake up is I brush my teeth and make myself a strong mug of coffee. After that I head to my model kit workbench and work on my Sandrock for 30 to 45 minutes while listening to a podcast or my playlist before I start with the stuff that I need to do at the studio. This part of my day helps me think, and it steels me for whatever I need to do everyday to get my life goals.
There are a lot of reasons why we do the things that we do. Sometimes the apparently mundane stuff that we come across in life affects us in a grand way. There is no doubt that reading that old magazine article influenced my decision to try working at home.
But it is not all about me spending time on my kits.
To me it means that I have been able to accomplish one of the things that I've always wanted to do. It's about knowing what you want, planning on how to do it and making the decision to give it a go. It's about clarity, about the many things that we want out of life and doing the necessary steps to get there.
I'm not saying that I'm already where I want to be. But working on my kits remind me that one of the things on my to do list has been taken care of and that I can get the rest done if I pray to God and work on them hard enough.
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