2020/10/7

Our Hockey Player Mononoke!

Watching the last Winter Olympics, I couldn’t miss the female hockey team of Nothern and Southern Korea. I haven’t seen them playing but I appreciate them just for the start.
A decision like: "I’m gonna be a hockey player!" made by a woman is similar to a decision of becoming a mother. Women do carry the fate of motherhood and shouldn’t take it light. In case of the father, it can be tolerated, occassional absence or skipped ritual doesn’t affect the family so much, but the mother, that’s something else.
Princess Mononoke is an old Japanese fairytale or legend from the ancient times of animal Gods and the Spirit of the Forest. When I was dismissed from my last job because I got mad I felt like at the end of the fairytale, standing in front the buidling with my favorite colleague watching him saying: "You stay in the forest and I will be in the city!"
... and from the forest (i.e. from the madhouse) I keep shouting the old utraquist-skinhead lyrics by Orlík: What makes you cows join the army and exchange a man for the parade-ground...