My favorite line is the very last.. "And the work is play for mortal stakes/ is the deed ever really done/ for heaven and the future's sakes." I interpreted this to mean that you should love what you do. Whether it be your job or your hobby, you should enjoy it so much that you never want it to end.
I also enjoyed this line: "My right might be love but theirs was need/ And where the two exist in twain/ Theirs was the better right--agreed." Frost talks about the two other tramps, or lumberjacks, that appear out of the woods as he is cutting wood. He says that their rights are different; Frost loves to chop wood but the two men need to chop wood in order to survive. When faced against each other, the right of need trumps the right of love.
Connecting this all back to my project, I haven't really found the place of absolute bliss. I do love my project but I'm not completely immersed in it. I've been feeling really unmotivated to work on my project lately (you can always blame Ithaca weather for all your problems) and am starting to fear that I've fallen behind.
I still haven't made my tea bowls, or anything else on my tea set. I've decided that I'm going to make four tea bowls instead of two, because I'm not making tea cups and I won't need to make saucers. I'm going in to Ms. Lutter's room tomorrow for a mentor meeting/ to work on it and hopefully I'll come out with something by the end of it.
We only have six weeks left to do our project and I need to set a timeline for myself to finish. To my advantage, though, one of our class assignments in wheel-throwing is to make a tea pot (!!!!!!). I know it's double-dipping but this would allow me to work on my project in class, and, if it turns out well I don't see a reason for why I couldn't use it for my tea set!
Okay, back to the timeline. Six weeks left.. oh my me.
I feel better now that I wrote that all down and made myself a plan for the weeks to follow. I actually just sighed in relief...
優柔不断
Yūjūfudan
Procrastination
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