Tomorrow is a Wonderful Future
Good evening (^^)
This is Mih0Chi4, a Nine Star Ki essayist 🤗
I share posts that weave together daily events and Nine Star Ki. I would be happy if you could think, "Ki-gaku is actually kind of interesting" ✨
Today, the theme is "the distance of the future" 🌟
If I may, I'd like to share an introduction...
The other day, I read an article by Riho-mama, and I read it with a sparkling heart, thinking that her son's way of thinking was truly wonderful.
▼I was particularly moved by this▼
"But as a 4th grader, I really want to do my best in Japanese class. I can't change who I was until 3rd grade, but I can change who I am as a 4th grader starting now.Even tomorrow is the future, so the future can be changed. That's why I'll do my best on tomorrow's test first."
It is truly just as he said!
How can one acquire such a wonderful perspective... I would love for the Riho-mama family to teach me 🥰
When I tried using those words as a hint...
Meanwhile, my own son. He is in his final year of kindergarten and is learning the piano 🎹
We have a promise to practice for 10 minutes on the weekend, but he makes all sorts of detours to get through those 10 minutes... ⌛
He likes the piano, but he doesn't seem to like "practicing" very much. It seems he feels he can't play exactly as he imagines right away.
His current practice piece is "Bee Bee Bee" (the one about the bee flying)
♪So, Fa, Mi ♪Re, Mi, Fa, Re, Do
He is having a hard time getting the "Re, Mi, Fa, Re, Do" movement right.
(When I watch closely, I realize that skipping a finger to hit a key is actually a surprisingly difficult movement.)
So, I remembered the words of Riho-mama's son and told him this.
"You're doing better than before ✨Won't you be able to do even more by tomorrow?"
The moment I said that...
The look in his eyes changed 🤩
He straightened his back and adopted a serious attitude. Then, as if he had just thought of it, he suddenly started playing the built-in music on the piano. However, that sound was background music.
He started practicing the difficult finger movement of the practice piece over and over again...!
Since I heard a different song, my husband, who was in another room, was about to scold him, but I shushed him with a "Shh" 🤫 and watched over him. He was very focused while the music was playing.
After one song finished, he switched back to the piano sound and tried playing it again...
The "Re, Mi, Fa, Re, Do" movement was smooth ✨
“Oh wow! You’ve gotten so much better!
If you practice tomorrow too, you might even get a gold star from your teacher!”
Hearing that, my son was eager to practice again the next day.
Wearing the Wrong Glasses
I have posted an article like this in the past.
Based on a hint from Riho-mama’s son’s “Tomorrow is also the future”
the words I shared with him seemed to help him visualize a clear path and a version of himself that could do it, allowing him to work on it proactively.
I “intended” to speak in a way that would help my son, who wears future-oriented glasses, be conscious of the “future,” but from my perspective, wearing past-oriented glasses, “the future” became a very large pair of glasses, and I feel a bit reflective that I seemed to be talking about things that were quite far off... It was an event that made me realize once again that “tomorrow” is a wonderful future!
*****
Although this is mainly about parenting rather than “Nine Star Ki-gaku,” there are many things that can be seen through “Nine Star Ki-gaku x Parenting” like this. This time, too, I was able to learn something new by incorporating Ki-gaku.
Riho-mama, please forgive me for introducing your post without permission. And thank you so much for turning such a wonderful conversation into a note article.
Thank you for reading today as well.