Time of your life...

I've heared this song (Time of your life by Green Day)once in a movie of a trainee that was in our local. I accidentally heared this days and I wish in the end I, at least can say...yes! It's worth it!!!

Another turning point;

a fork stuck in the road.

Time grabs you by the wrist;

directs you where to go.

So make the best of this test

and don't ask why.

It's not a question

but a lesson learned in time.

It's something unpredictable

but in the end it's right.

I hope you had the time of your life.

So take the photographs

and still frames in your mind.

Hang it on a shelf

In good health and good time.

Tattoos of memories

and dead skin on trial.

For what it's worth,

it was worth all the while.

It's something unpredictable

but in the end it's right.

I hope you had the time of your life.

Individualism

God, protect me of my friends 'cause of my enemies I can easely take care of.

I managed to deal with the responsabilities that I had. It seems that I am very capable to do other people's tasks and my own but when it comes the time that I need some help I'm suddenly alone in the middle of nowhere.

So one thing that I've learned in the hard way:

When you are all strong and available to help others you will always be surrounded by friends. When you reached the bottom of your strenght and need help from others then you realize that in fact it's only you.

And onother thing is that when you managed to do something extraordinary people will treat you worse than an ordinary person.

I want to see again the quality of people...

Conclusions

This week I've done what I'm most fan of: working that is. And I feel great. Beside my things on the department I have another TO DO list from the president with things that I have to do for the LC. And I accomplished 80% of it until now. I had a lot of challenges that gaved me more energy and motivated me since I am an workaholic freek.

I feel so well with this huge responsability in my shoulders and I really think I can manage the situation.

Tomorrow I don't know if I am going to stay home, most probably I will have to come aslo in the office because the recruitment is coming and there are a lot of things to do. I love being surrounded by members and to know that I can help them.

I found today a bigger challenge and I had to resolve a situation that involved 2 strong characters and because of my 2 years experience in dealing with challenges I managed to do what I've proposed to my self. Now I am waiting for effects and I will give my best to deal with the situation, make it better and see a change in that.

I've noticed in myself a psychological aspect that I developed in time by dealing with different personalities.

Today is also the day in which I should receive a mail to establish a phone interview for an opportunity that I apply for. I'm really anctious.

I know everything is going to turn out ok because everything happends for a reason.

I had the time of my life!

It's simply amazing how life keep throwing challenges for some people.

Well, this experience started spontaniously. We were 18 persons that should go to a conference in Baile Herculane and one of us had to go earlier to Bucharest to pick up something from the Economical Science Academy. At first there were like minimum 3 persons that said they will go with her so I've made my plan to go in the afternoon. Late at night I found out that there was actually just one person that "probably" will go with her. I could not let one of us to go alone taking into consideration we were so many and she should stay a few hours alone in Bucharest so I said I'll do my best to get in time.

I've finished the urgent things to do and when I looked at the clock there were 30 minutes left to get to the train station, buy the ticket and eventually get in the train. I thought it was impossible but then, and it was like a sudden thought that camed into my mind: in that moment I was only thinking of myself. I runed out to a car that was alomost leaving and I got to the train station and runed to buy the ticket and guess what? I even had time to catch my breath. There was another girl from the EB there that thought like me. It was a spontanious, crazy and fun action. The ones from Galati find out that I left with the other girls when they were in the train station buying the tickets.

The time spend in Bucharest - I'll say priceless because I had so much fun wiht the girls, we were in Piata Romana, got into the shopping mood and finnaly we got to stay to a Mc'Donnalds that was not the one from the North Train Station. It was an incredible feeling and we got energy from there for all the conference that was about to begin.

We meet the others at the Mc'Donnalds from the North Train Station ofcourse but this time for a short period of time. We got in the next train that was taking us to Baile Herculane. We arrived there in the morning at about 3 AM and cheked in then we spend some more fun moments.

The conference was great. It was like a cold shower also and I've realized that I can do whatever I want to. There is nothing impossioble but challenging and I do love challenges. I'm a little confused though about my future in AIESEC. I can not decide what to do next. AIESEC gives you a lot of opportunities and now I don't know where to choose from.

Moving on to the team building on the road home. It was, fun, shoking, amazing, awesome and so on. We got in the train and I still remember the "fight" that I had with one guy from our delegation that I wanted to stay in the second wagon. They decided to stay in the 6th one because another delegation had more places there then us. Anyway, we got in the train, go to sleep and waked up suddenly. At 2:35 AM the train stoped and one of the girls from the compartment started crying. I tried to calm her, I looked on the window there were only trees. Other people started screaming at us that the train had derailed. I was telling them to shut up and not to scare her anymore but they insisted that this actually happened and that the train was turning on one side. I heared that someone told us to get out of the train imeddiately. I did not mooved from my place untill I saw people actully getting out with their luggages so I calmly took my luggage and got on the holeway. Then I actually realized that the train was actully sloping. We were a little bit scared at the begining but we got over it and started jokeing on the subject. I really enjoyed this very much. And because we love the adventure and fun, the bus that was taking us to the next train station broke and we had to wait for another one.

In the end we got in the train to Bucharest and a very nice thing was that the one from Galati actually waited 40 minutes for us to come. We got home at about 3 PM.

Now people make fun of us but at least we enjoyed it.

Everything happends for a reason. Seems that somebody up there knows we got borred of the old Mc'Donnalds in Bucharest's train station and made something fun for us. And the good part is that I've seen a part of Craiova and I've seen also the Caracal train station (this really was not in to my to do list but anyway :D).

Territory marks.

Kinds have the tendency to test their parents limits. Just like everybody has a confort zone, the human beeing feels the necesity to settle his territory. Because of this psychological aspect, kids have the tendency to pass over the "NO" word. We can notice this especially to little children (until the age of 3) that they don't perceive the word. But , why?

Well because, breaking a rule it is not associates with any kind of punishment. In the moment that comes "the correnction" from the parents trough associating any mistake with a punishment, they start to be conscious about the meaning and the value of the word.

Knowing all this, some people do this kind of thing (this time consciously) in other situations to identify their territory and the barriers that other people can settle in relating to them. They attack the target person just to see the moment she is stoped. Once you lost the control on the situation and you conceived more that you would normaly do, you lost the war. Trying to take back from your territory is quite difficult because the other person already sees herself owning that territory.

Now you can only get to work because you have a new owner!

Get over it!

What is the importance of values for a person?Well, values shapes our caracter and personality. If we see that we are forced to break them, in our conscience produces a confusion because this would mean to stop being who we really are. People define this as "hypocrisy". If we feel that our values are violated or criticized we take this as a personal attack. Reactions, words, the actions of the others goes trough our own filter of values and principles.

If I am a punctual person for instance, my perception on the other person that will came late will be of disrepect against me. If I am an onest person and someone tries to lie to me, I will consider this as an insult.

All this things are the bases of the principle: "You have the right to forgive the one who fails but you don't have the right to forget the mistake."

Saying that you can both forgive the person that failed and forget the mistake is not realistic because the human brain has 2 elements that won't let us forget: memory and conscience.

In this care the most common expressions are: "to get over it", or "make a compromise", "let it be", that determines you not to take action now but when the person will make another mistake. The effects of the mistake in that moment are going to be bigger including interest for the other mistakes that we "got over them".

Summer update

After all the challenges that I had to face finally I got a breath of fresh air at the most fabulous conference ever: AIESEC Olymp-x powered by AIESEC Galati.

I needed it soo much. And in the end it gave me more energy to go on with my plans for this autum. "If your dreams don't scare you, that means they are not big enough" and that is the thing. Going on for bigger objectives and higher ambitions.

Another thing that I have realized is that we are at the end of our term as VP's. I look back and see a lot of maturity in us after facing all the challenges that were thrown on us since the beggining. Looking way back since the biggining, when I was a newie in AIESEC ... oh my God, is that really me?!?

My life changed a lot and now I have this big obsession: I want to go in eXchange and I want to continue in AIESEC. I can not imagine my life without it ... what can I do?