I’ve woken up the past few days with a sort of negative feeling about the struggles, sacrifice and time involved in the puppet film I am trying to create. There are no guarantees of success and a lot of difficult tasks are on my shoulders to somehow pull off. I’m working on things in a methodical way, to prepare and build towards shooting the puppetry portions. It is a slow and challenging process. Waking up with a negative feeling doesn’t help. I imagine I’ve probably dreamt something or other and the feeling is lingering from that. I brush it aside, because your mind can do some pretty strange things and its best not to let that color your day. I see progress being made on another challenging portion of the films, with the cloth backgrounds. These positive developments are what I use to pull myself through. I’ve got to stick through this for the long haul or it is not going to happen.The time I had requested at the hostel was up. I could probably request more, but there were a few things that better suited my next tasks at my friend’s place. So, we packed up into a rickshaw and head to Imran’s. Umar had been cleaning up a room for us, so I joined him and Kristeen started cooking.Afterwards, Kristeen and I wandered the neighborhood to get some groceries. We all ate lunch together then got to work. Umar is working on the second background now. I sorted the cloth I had picked up and made bundles for the next few backgrounds. I’m thinking about what I need to try and get done in September. Forget what happens after that. What I do now will get me ready for that. One step at a time.