Iron Ring

This week has been frustrating. It was a busy week at school and I didn’t get to train as much as I wanted to or should have. I guess it’s not that I didn’t have time. Even with a very busy week I definitely had time to throw in some training. But I found it difficult to shift focus from my other commitments. I was/am so worried about school stuff that I find it stressful to even think about anything else. Which now that I am thinking about it, this is definitely objectively wrong. Taking some time to focus on something else (such as Kung Fu) would in all likelihood be beneficial to my mental health. But yeah, I definitely have this tendency to “have” to focus solely on one thing, at the expense of everything else. Definitely something to continue to watch out for.

In other news, I attended the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer ceremony (iron ring ceremony) this weekend. This cermony is focused on the responsibility engineers have to the public. To me, the most important part of this cermony is the focus on humility. Now that I have studied for four years in my field, I don’t leave under the impression that I know everything, instead I understand that I have only begun to learn what I must learn.

Parts of it reminded me of Kung Fu and particularly of the idea of a black belt. The black belt is a recognition of a high level of skill, but it is only the beginning of learning what you must learn. Humility is so entrenched in what Kung Fu is, as it should also be in engineering.

Kobe Csillag