"A robot in his apartment thinking about Love,"
That never leaves you no matter how much it leaves
In the past year, I’ve fallen in love a total of five times. And if I keep loving people, I expect that number to continue rising. Why do I get so swept up in this?
Well, most of the time, I’m trying to tell a character in a story that she’s better off without the person she’s in love with. And I’m not only telling her this, but also describing all the reasons why.
I don’t know if it’s my own writing style, or an unusual part of the human experience, but this is how it is when I tell someone I love them.
And in a way, that’s what haiku are, in that they’re compact.
In the same way that the length of a song often conveys the emotion of the piece, so do haiku. The brevity gives you the feeling of something, and the length makes it clear that something’s been said.
“Mourning dove. In your presence, my heart has turned the color of red sandstone.” -Fukuda Soryo
If you ever listen to a string quartet play a piece and feel moved by the music, you may know why. In the same way that the song “My Favorite Things” conveys a particular feeling, so does this piece.
But why do these two things mean the same thing? Because a song is a series of individual notes. So a string quartet has a number of string instruments, and the same number of players. It’s an “individually-constructed” work of art.
A haiku is an individual poem, and I have a number of poems in my head that would take years to put to paper. I’m using them to communicate to a character in a story that she’s better off without the person she’s in love with.
And so, if the haiku conveys a certain feeling, it’s because of the way the lines fit together, the length of them, the repetition of the pattern.
You can write poems with three lines, and with as many as eight. I’ve written haiku with over five lines, too. But when I write a haiku, I want to give the feeling of the song, the length of it, the feeling that you can express in two-and-a-half lines.
I might have written another haiku about “red sandstone,” which I’d like to try to do someday. But I’d rather work on writing the story that I’ve got now. So that when the haiku comes along, it won’t feel like a distraction. It’ll be like a part of the whole story. I think this is the right kind of feeling, anyway.
I have a story in progress that I hope to get to in the next couple years, so I might not have to worry about the feeling of it for another year or two. Now, if a person’s going to have a real crush on someone, that’s a different story. That means a few years of feeling that the other person is the only one in the world. And so, in a way, the whole world seems to be in love with them.
But that doesn’t stop you from being in love with more than one person at the same time. You can love several people with the same feelings. Or, if one person brings out the feelings in you and another person brings out the feelings in you, you can still love them both.
So that’s something that’s important for a writer to know, when he’s trying to write a story.
You can write a story about someone falling in love. You can describe all the things that make up this person. And so can I. So I’m going to try to write a haiku about Love someday.
Until then, I’ll work on my story, and on the feelings that I’m trying to convey in the story.
It’s been another strange day in my life. I spent most of it working on one of the stories I’m writing, so I didn’t even know what time it was when I went to sleep. I woke up at ten, and then at two, and again at five.
It was as if the sun were following me around. And that’s kind of how it is, in a way.
The sun is following me, or maybe I’m trying to follow it, and it’s following me through my dreams. So far I’ve only had three dreams this week, but my mind is still filled with stories, and the feeling of that haiku I want to write someday.
At the start of the year, the Robot Building contest began.
And i've already got my new kicks printed and I am almost ready to put myself together the first time.
Todays update is the shoes, they were printed in black.
You will notice the difference between regular 3D printing and the higher quality resin.
So the chest piece is done and all the arms and legs too. The tiny pieces, for now they will stay in the box until more parts arrive.
Yes I am an actual robot! If you have any extra robot parts at the moment I would appreciate a donation to @alphalab. My next goal is to have this robot running and doing something before the end of the year.
My next major update should come after another week or two so stay tuned! You can help by sending HBD to @alphalab and supporting Design & Fabrication Lab Alpha with this and with other designs. Our goal is to save $12,000 so we can build a new robot every year! There are also many other costs so please support the project by donating to @alphalab.
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