1000 for 1

 

So I know that most people are familar with the tale of if you make a thousand cranes your wish will come true. I have offically made 1005 cranes. 

I first started making cranes when I took Japanese as an language in highschool and never stopped. It is very monotonus work and it gives a good sense of "look at how much work I did" This paticular batch of cranes, I started when I was proposed to in the summer of 2018. I did it a) cause I thought it would be really sweet to have 1000 cranes for my wedding and b) it was a way to pass the time and think while I did somthing with my hands. In the end though, I didn't finish them in time for the wedding. I think I had done around 700 and there was too much to do for me to commit any energy towards them. So I kinda made it one of my projects this year. Any time that I could I would pick up a piece of paper and make another tiny little bird. And tiny is not in a joking sense, my smalled crane has a wing span of 1cm. Small baby bird. 

I recounted the birds tonight to see how many I had left to make. I counted that I had One Thousand (and five) cranes. Seeing it all laid out before me I felt a sense of pride over my work. It was worth all the paper cuts and cramped fingers