Recently Kiki watched Tomb Raider. She was entranced. She loves the Laura Croft character and now aspires to be like her. Kiki doesn’t want to shoot guns or punch people, but she wants some of that fearlessness. She admires how Laura is very centered and confident. Laura always knows what she wants and she goes to get it.
Kiki didn’t discuss this in detail with me. She just dropped a few comments. But she also started setting her alarm to get herself up in the morning. She made a list of how she wants to run her mornings and it includes meditation and exercise. I love seeing Kiki take the reins of her life and deliberately choose who she wants to be.
Wow. Talk about getting all the right things out of a role model.
I’ll readily admit that, as a teenage male watching that movie a few years back, I had other things on my mind than the lead character’s personality traits. (The fact that the movie’s plot and factual accuracy were lacking had a lot to do with that, too – I basically went to the movie for eye candy in the first place.) I never really thought about things to admire in, or lessons to learn from, the characters.
Wow. Talk about getting all the right things out of a role model.
I’ll readily admit that, as a teenage male watching that movie a few years back, I had other things on my mind than the lead character’s personality traits. (The fact that the movie’s plot and factual accuracy were lacking had a lot to do with that, too – I basically went to the movie for eye candy in the first place.) I never really thought about things to admire in, or lessons to learn from, the characters.
Has she ever taken a structured martial arts course?
Good dojos teach meditation, and centering, and self confidence, and all that good stuff.
Bad ones, of course, teach you how to beat people up.
Has she ever taken a structured martial arts course?
Good dojos teach meditation, and centering, and self confidence, and all that good stuff.
Bad ones, of course, teach you how to beat people up.
Unless it’s different in the US or something…
For the record, it’s Lara. Lara Croft.
Unless it’s different in the US or something…
For the record, it’s Lara. Lara Croft.