Saturday, November 01, 2008

Good autumn to you…


Time is passing and here I am again with you…

Quite many things happened since my last stories I posted here and especially after my trip to an amazing country like Brazil. As after any kind of trip you go, after coming back there are tons of tasks or things to be sorted out and complete, that making you some times not having any time to breath… As a result of 3 weeks trip and conference itself, it took me almost a month to come back to the normal conditions… well, that’s even more fun for you in the end, but not much fun for your health, which you are forgetting to treat time by time ;) It like in some advertising: “hello, who are you?”, “I’m your immunity and I’m leaving you, as another person is treating me better”…

Right now started one of the most important periods in my term as being responsible for an exchange area – recruitment of young people, whom AIESEC will give an opportunity to explore the world by our internships and at the same time giving to the local companies and organizations opportunity to find the solutions for their business processes by again our program. Well, let’s see how many of my effort, which were put into ensuring the main processes will work to bring the most results, will pump up with the goals, we hit to be achieved. At the same time things are happening during the day time, makes you feel not so much ambitious anymore, as you are always working with the young people, who actually bringing the results, but at the same time who always learn and that’s mainly one of the key things – people learn on their mistakes, develop themselves and becoming smarter, than they were before. But for the person, who is coming from another country this logic might not work… Especially if you have already passed that part in your life and now searching for something in your experience, which will bring a value to the next periods of your career, development or whatever… Now I’m feeling that I started to miss that part…

Quite for a long period of time, I’m feeling that nothing gets me feel excited and experience new things. Seems that we have already had it “some day ago”… Maybe that’s only a routine process, which makes you feel down… I’m feeling that the things I’m doing now is just same as I was doing previous years, but sure the environment has changed… that feeling of frustration is already for a month and I see that’s not right… Just same AIESEC every day… 

How often do you feel that smth you wanted to get – like buying a new cloth, book recommended to be read or let’s say fruit, in the reality it isn’t smth you were expecting too? Of course, life is about taking risks, “tasting things for probation” and learning, but isn’t that also unfair, that you feel wasting your time and resources…  

I was having this thought coming to me once I was standing in the bus stop when it was raining and brought an example of apple, as being my favorite fruit. I have shared some of that thoughts with certain people already…

You wanna buy a tasty-looking apple in the shop, on the way already expecting its taste and after getting it, you see that it’s actually worm-eaten. And your expectations are broken… Different people are acting differently… One of them throw it away and get buy a pear, others – cut the worm-eaten parts and enjoy the rest of an apple, third part of people are eating whole apple, just because they paid for it; some individuals will use it to bake apple-roll or making a fruit compote… Basically, you can always do something with that and in the end of the day what matters – you are happy or still not… 

That’s again about choices you take and values you get out of it… But that’s still a question for me…

Enjoy eating your apples…