The Pain Of Organizing Events

Day 36 of writing every day.

I started my morning busy responding and writing emails since the almost annual memorial event at my dojo is this weekend and I’d been charged with the task of sending out the notice, getting everyone’s RSVPs and confirming information they forgot to mention, making a list of all those attending, then finally the program for the demonstrations.

It’s understandable and a fact of life that some people might not know their schedule until past the RSVP deadline. However, sometimes there are those who reply without even consideration for the deadline or just don’t seem to read your email and don’t answer what it is you’re asking. It can be frustrating as well when the response is given to someone else who would then forward it to you instead of just responding to the email you sent out.

I think we often hear the idea of speaking someone’s language. But it’s not used in the sense of speaking the same spoken language. Speaking someone’s language is more a referral to knowing what they think and want, not a reference to both parties speaking English or Japanese, for example.

So in the end I’m trying to figure out what different people are saying by repeating back what I interpreted their words to mean. We might not think about it in our daily lives, but when communicating on native speaker levels there’s a lot of interpreting going on despite using the same written and spoken language.

We’re far from being perfect communicators

We might think we get our thoughts through but if that was the case, there’d be no need to learn how to write essays as students and no need for speechwriters and editors that help even those who talk and write for a living.

I’m getting things done and handled but it proves to be a frustrating experience at times and it’s not a paid job or anything, so I’m not getting rewarded financially for my time and labor. But it’s a labor of love if there’s any way to put it, so I just have to push through to the end.

It’s a nice and short blog today, but I just have a lot going on and sometimes that means I just don’t get to spend more time writing and looking introspectively at the present and whatnot.

Thanks for reading!