Mikka Bouza

MY SPECIAL MIKKA BOUZU

Huh?? what is Mikka Bouzu? This is the first thing that would be in your mind, right? Well, it simply means in Japanese, someone who gives up easily on something or does not complete a project or work. I know of a person like that. Let's call her Maxy.

A little introduction of my friend. Maxy is a fun & crazy person with a wide interest in lots of things. From craftwork to astrology, cookery, aromatherapy, archeology, nature, traveling, photography, literature, computer games, chemical engineering, and many more. Her education is not that good when she was in school but as she grew older, she became very intellectually better. In fact, her mathematics was great. Funny huh. Well, Maxy had many interests but always drop them halfway and continue to new ones.

She would do beautiful craftworks and give them away. Sometimes sells them at a very cheap price to friends who insist on paying for her hard work. But she would enjoy just giving them away. I don’t why but maybe she just enjoys giving her friends or other people the pleasure of enjoying the work she created.

She joined an MLM product with has essential oils as she found out that with the oils she can make soaps, lipsticks, lotions and help other people to use the oils for health benefits. Maxy would make soaps and lotions gave away for Christmas. She would buy some oils. Then someone told her that she would buy from her if she made 10 bars of Goats Milk soap for her. Maxy did the order and added essential oils to help the complexion of the skin and fragrances to give a nice aroma but took quite some time to complete the order. Why? She was researching for the best possible product to give this friend. Eventually, she delivered it and apologized for the delay. She didn’t collect the money at all but later found out that her friend did not collect the money she owed her friend for a funeral gift for a friend that they knew who passed away. After that Maxy stop doing soap. She did some lotion and gave it away too. But then she stopped doing it.

Then she got a new project. She started copper tooling, an old way of doing beautiful pictures on copper sheets by using wooden tools. She would start on a project and would finish it immediately if it is a simple design. If it was difficult, she finishes it in a week. That is how passionate she was in her work. But when it came to when someone wanted to buy a project from her, she would sell it for a cheap price and not continue with that craft.

Then she got laid off from work and her company paid her some money. She started to find something that would keep her busy. Then she saw a craft book on stained glass painting. She got interested in it. She started going for classes for it. She then wrote to her sister in the UK, to buy some o the paints for her because it was expensive to get the paints here. Her sister who was very generous got her a whole bunch of colourful vibrate colour. Maxy did many projects and gave them away. Then again one of her friends commission her a project. She did it but later did not continue on glass painting.

She did bead bracelets too. She learned how to use the essential oils to drop onto the bracelets for her mother. Again, she made a few and gave them away. Maxy told her sister in the UK again about this new craft and being a generous sister, got her 2 sets of tools and about 12 sets of beads. This time Maxy was overwhelmed with all these beads, she didn’t know where to start. She saw the beads were so beautiful and kept them in boxes to do them later but never got to start on it.

Then Maxy retired. She did some word craving word for her pleasure. She learned this when she was in her old church. I remember she told me this, “If you want to have the character of our Lord Jesus Christ, you must be a carpenter like Him.” And she did. I remember she worked with the group in the old church, a mural with the words “He is Lord”. It is still there when I lasted visited the old church. She loved wood craving. I saw an incomplete project when I was helping to clean the house. She told me it was her last project and it was called The Praying Hands. Maxy said she will finish it one day as it was very difficult. She took it from the picture done by Michelangelo. She wanted to crave it in 3 Dimension wooden broad. I saw it halfway done but it was beautiful.

Now Maxy got into Pyrography. I asked her what was it and she explained to me it was simply designing pictures by using a soldering iron to burn a picture on wood. She said it a beautiful and would use the technic for her Michelangelo project too, One day was her exact words while smiling at me. Again, she told her ex-colleague from the factory. This friend knew Maxy was good and told her to make 20 keys chains with burnt designs on the wood. She even promised to help Maxy market for her in the future. Maxy did it for her 30 keychains to choose and true enough her friend paid her for the keychains. She made $70 for the 20 keychains. After that Maxy did not make any more projects.

Her interest had stopped there. I don’t why at that time. But as I put this on paper, I see a common threat. I realized that Maxy is a special Mikku Bouzu. Someone that gives up easily not because she gave up hope or not faith, but actually gave up the interest when someone makes it into a business for her. I realized that she does it for pleasure and enjoys seeing the people she gives the things, makes them happy. That is her payment. The joy and happiness in the people she gives, that is why she makes to them. That makes her a special Mikku Bouzu.

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