End and start!

The end of my EB abroad and the start of my blog.

On my dad's birthday. One of those who are responsible for my birth. Coincidence? I guess I have to keep 25th of Nov in mind. Or maybe it's just my type of intelligence who is used to thinking in patterns.

Enjoy! Feel! Love! Passion! Diversity! Dream! Action! Freedom! Development! They define me.

It took me a while until I finally decided that I will start a blog.
The cons where related to how personal shall the postings be. The pros where related to benefit of reflecting upon what have you passed through. What went good. What went wrong.

In the end the benefits of blogging combined with the decision of drawing a limit when it comes to revealing the personal stuff through which I am passing through won against the cons. I mentioned the limit as it will be rather difficult for me to do that, as love has always been one of the pieces of life that nurtures me the most. Still, this would imply another's person life and I do not have the right of reavealing another person's side of life.

As I said before I am starting my blog at the end of my term as a VP in Linz, Austria.

If I would be asked to summarize it all in a few words they would be:
Diversity! Passion! People! Discovery! Growth! Dreams! Action! All interconnected! This is what my work was all about. It was an experience that stretched me, that opened my eyes daily, that made the event of finding myself happen.

Though it was only 3 months it helped. This experience was a restatement of what I love and a reinforcement of the decision upon the way I want live my life. Of course there still are things to be defined but this reassurance feeling is rather nice.

True that there is still a long way to the acomplishment, but it' s a conforting feeling once you start to clear up the horizon and you enjoy more and more the process. It's even beautiful once you clearly see that to reach your dream you have several ways of having the impact you desire. Still once you've made up your mind painful decisions must be made. I guess it's also a matter of how much you stick to the cause and for how long this is still a priority for you.

Writing these lines on one my favorite songs of one of my favorite bands: U2, it' s a reinforcement of another thing that I learned in AIESEC: enjoy the beauty of this world, and give your best to make it more beautiful. Which switches me to one of my living quotes: 'Giving your life for a dream, means treassuring life at it's value.'

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U2-Beautiful day
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It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day
Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case
See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out
It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day
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In these 3 months...
some of the crumbs from my learnings.

I learned that:

· I am the only one responsible to my own serenity
· Love is one of the things that I treasure the most. I am talking about all the possible ways of love that are exist: the love for your partner, the love for your family, the love that you should have for your daily activities. I treasure it as it’s the only unmaterial thing that for no reason it gives you happines.
· You do not have limits. Only if you want to have limits. The amount of self-streching is infinite.
· The importance of being able to focus and self-discipline. I’ve seen again that proactivity is a must.
· I saw what belief and passion does when it comes to convincing others.
· Eachone of us think that we are kind.:D
·'Walk the talk'! and start now. Be careful what you promise, if you promise.

...and most importantly: keep your authenticity.