About Me
- Name: ioana
- Location: Bucharest, Romania
I experiment with myself and the world around me. I always seek for that small sparkle of what's real and authentic in things, people, nature...
And I must say we’ve made an exquisite choice to elect this girl here:
Her name is Georgi, and has the beautiful mind (and body :p) that will drive our team experince even further!
serenity
- the state of being serene
- a lack of agitation or disturbance
This is what I need right now :)
This is the name of the movie I watched last night. It debates on the idea of spirituality in concepts from physics, mathematics, chemistry, and religion. It raises many of the questions I’ve been asking myself lately, so obviously I enjoyed very much the scrap-book of scientific theories, inner reflections, religious myths the “Bleep” approaches. Many questions raised by it, but they let us take the step to find our own personal answer. The only conclusion is that what YOU choose and how YOU behave shapes your LIFE.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The visible side of the invisible is this time the water molecule. This was the strongest image I have from the Bleep. Dr. Masaru Emoto from Japan developed a research about water crystals. He took pictures of crystal water molecules from Fujiwara Dam, they look like some fuzzy little clouds. Then he placed water in several bottles with different tags, let them froze over night, and took pictures of their crystals. Each bottle had a different tag, one with “Thank you”, one “Love and gratitude”, one “Chi of love”, and one with “You make me sick”. Surprisingly, each tag developed different crystals, the positive ones resulting in beautiful snow flake – angel shaped molecules, and the negative ones resulting in distorted and unclear crystals.
Above: "The Chi of Love"
Imagine now, if words have such influence over water, how much influence have our thoughts on our bodies? Remember, we are 75% water…
Three very important conclusions:
- a straight line is the shortest way that unites two points
- any given segment is an infinity of points
- Pi is an infinite number
I know it sounds like blabbering. We were actually talking about learning, and how AIESEC impacts your learning. The most valuable thing I have from AIESEC is not the learning path itself, since I believe I can achieve similar things in other ways, but becoming aware that you are on that learning path. Knowing this gave me great power…I have this saying, that knowing the system means controlling the system!
Did you ever notice how many people are unaware of their capacities, and thus believe there is only little they can do? I think our limits come mostly not from our actual capacities, but from our beliefs that we can’t make things happen. We are raised in frameworks that define success, predetermined paths that are generally accepted as ways to achieve this success. Just an example from my area, if you want to become a business person, you will need to study Economics at school, start working in a multinational, then ideally follow an MBA. And so, you spend a few years following the predetermined path to success, only to find that “up there” is someone who not only did not even study economics, but didn’t really much care for school, and leaped in only few steps to management position.
Why? Simply because he/she controls the system :)
In mathematic language now:
A is defined as starting point, Z is desired success. Most paths are of the type A->B->C->D->…..->Z
But I say there are people who will make it A->F->M->T->Z.
When I say you become in control of the system I mean that usual paradigms don’t affect you anymore, and you are aware that you can achieve more in simpler manners. With the risk to become boring, it’s Step 2 from the Awakening process I mentioned in the previous post.
Step 1: Become Aware
Step 2: Gain Control
I like this mathematical thinking, used to be my favorite subject for many years :):)
*Definition
Bildungsroman = (German: "novel of education" or "novel of formation") is a novel which traces the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character from (usually) childhood to maturity.
Allowing myself to be taken by the current Herman Hesse fashion (and seduced by Geani’s high passion for it), I pursuit on reading “Narcis and Goldemund” for a start. A true bildungsroman.
Lately I am considering my life as a bildunsroman as well. With time passing I become more and more aware of myself, of my true desires, thoughts, and beliefs. Who on earth would think it’s so damn hard to know who you are and what you think? I used to be so sure of myself and have such grand plans for my future…Like finish school top of class, go for a master degree, work for some big fancy multinational, earn tones of money (for a good purpose of course), help my family.
Ha…I’m laughing of the bourgeoisie ambitions from my past. Don’t get me wrong, it’s perfectly fine if that is what you actually want. But for me external pressures shaped my perceptions and desires, my family always considered school important, and so did I, it was the cool thing to be the top professional, and so I thought the same, and this went on and on for years.
Hesse calls this process “the awakening”, and I do feel like coming out of a long long nap. I can’t get rid this memory since I was about 3 years old, when I had a sudden moment of my own conciseness: I was asking myself “Why I am I, and I am not Amie (best friend at that age)?” And from that moment on, the world stumbled in, with its ambitions, discriminations, destiny paths, and so on….
Being awake is torment and stillness in the same time. I am in the stillness phase now, I already passed the torment a few months ago. I am coming closer and closer to finding my true path, and embracing the wonders of the world
Like time, time, there's always time
On my mind
So pass me by, I'll be fine
Just give me time...
I wish blogs could support music! It’s very easy for me to associate a state of mind with music, and fit my playlist according for the mood I have. So let’s see what’s in my playlist now:
Juanes – La camisa Negra
Pussycat Dolls – Don’t Cha
Daddy Yankee – La gasolina
U2 – Elevation [my classic]
In translation, I am in deep need of rhythm (DURO!!!) I think I should go for a clubbing on Friday/Saturday, to align my inner rhythm with the fast one of the things happening around me!
Arrgh, I started smoking again! The time before and after IC has been completely hectic in the MC: recruitments, conferences to deliver, PR campaign for Exchange, partnerships to resign, new accounts to develop, and I could go on! A lot of pressure and stress is common these days, and for me at least smoking is a way to release stress. I know it’s not healthy, but then again I know if I want to quit I can do it in a swift!
“Dame mas gasolina!”
One thing I am really excited about is how XMM turned out. XMM is our autumn national conference (eXchange Management Meeting), brings together about 150 members from our 14 local committees. I’m really proud of our Faci team, our chair (AbhiShakeIT!!!), the OC, and last but definitely not least of the members that attended the conference!
Taking life in the chest! – This was the inscription on my Faci Tshirt! :)
I am going to Poland in November to facilitate one of their national conferences. I’m really excited, since this is actually the first time I am going in a different country to facilitate. And thanks god, it’s not something on ER :):):)
Now I’m getting back to the good old sales reports, to finish work, and go home before 10 o’clock!!!