The end of another chapter

The galaxy is full of stars and planets. Earth is just one of them. Earth is full of people (some 6 billion of them, if I’m not wrong). I am one of them. My life is made of lots of chapters. AIESEC was just one of them. And it’s over now.

I was laughing at myself the other day while I was rememorizing the many thoughts that wandered through my mind in the last four-five weeks. The decision-making process that started with the question: “Do I still want to run for VP PD?” and developed into another, more drastic question that needed a Yes-or-No answer: “Do I still want to be in @?” I was laughing because it was the most serious thing I’ve done in a long, long time; I had to use every ounce of energy I had; I challenged myself to look onto the issue from all the perspectives that I could have got; and so on.

It’s a nice exercise to have, especially after a period when you treat things serious, but definitely not too serious because it was too risky (as in you can lose it if you take things too seriously). This time around it was all serious, from the beginning ‘till the very end; it was so because I had to take a decision that would then impact the remainder of my life, the whole of it. Overall it was a very nice experience.

The funniest part, though, came just after I had made my mind; just after I knew that I was about to leave: it was the part when I wanted to see what AIESEC was for me (in the real sense); it was the time when I wanted to “evaluate my @XP”. The funniest part in this was rememorizing the stages I passed through, regarding attitude towards AIESEC and its impact on my life. The flow was something like: hatred (I haven’t learned anything from this organization because I only did what I knew best and I knew more than I did); indifference (maybe I learned a couple of things… maybe not… anyway, it wasn’t that good; let’s say that not so bad either); love (look at all these people around me and how they are growing; they would be so much worse without AIESEC. I’m sure that this is applicable in my case also); fear (was I wrong in the decision I had taken?); RESPECT (I do RESPECT this organization and I do acknowledge the progress I made with its help; I do SEE that AIESEC makes so many people so much better, me included; I do KNOW that things could be better... but is there a perfect thing in this world; I AM SURE that leaving was the best thing for me; I WISH, with all my heart, that @ will be better and better each day. It was what I was striving for every day of my @XP, and I am SURE that this will happen ALWAYS because I do BELIEVE in @ers, especially in those that I know better, the ones from Bucharest).

Food for thought: I know that the vast majority of people tend to say that quality is better than quantity, but what should be done in order to get these people to actually believe this and to act upon this on a daily basis?