I’ve been a bad blogger lately, I admit it. And this is my way to formally apologize for all those who bother to read, and a promise that from now on I will really bother to write constantly. You know, actually writing is one the most pleasant and relaxing activities for me, and I keep using the lame lack-of-time excuse for not doing it regularly. So I am bound to change this, and make the most of my writing skills, be it articles, releases, my book or my blog…

But coming back to the title of this post, let me share with you some of the simple truths of life that my new-found-wisdom made me discover or reconfirm (different way of saying that I spent a whole month doing nothin'):

• There is some maturity that comes with age. I am aging. We all are. This is the first part of the simple truth. My birthday was at the beginning of the month, and for the first time the new number sounded rather “mature” than “young”. At first I felt fear, fear enhanced by some more physical discoveries, such as a new wrinkle, or a few white hairs. Typically feminine to worry about such little issues (little for now :)), but all in all they are a reminder that time is ticking. The second part of this simple truth is that after the first choke of fear, I could inhale a new breeze, the desire to push the break for a change. I’m guessing that not just my age number changed, but also some inner trigger that tells me to stop my rush for new experiences, and focus on fewer but more meaningful ones. It’s not that I want to stop experimenting, but I want to have different kind of experiments, mature ones!
• It doesn’t matter so much what you do, but more how you do it, and with whom. I haven’t shared it with you all, but I have a new job since the beginning of the year. I am back at my first love – marketing – and I’m doing a lot of things that I used to do while back in aiesec. Sure, it’s very different to apply the same things in the business world, but the basics is pretty much the same. But the one change that came with working with Human Invest is in my energy level! I wake up early eager to come to work, to drink my coffee with the team, to share a day together! When I go home, I don’t feel drained of life like I used to at my old job, but I am fresh, smiling and buzzing with energy! The people around you can change your whole perspective of what you do. I used to believe it’s the other way around, that nothing will matter as long as I do what I like. Now I learned to see the work itself as secondary, and what really matters is that I work with amazing individuals, and that we have fun and laugh a lot while doing the work.
• Family is the one thing you have when everything else falls apart. Some years ago, when I came to Bucharest, I didn’t even talk to my family for weeks. The excitement of being on my own, doubled by the very nature of my independent self made me put family on the lower side of my priority list. It’s not that I didn’t love them, just that for the time is was more important for me to be youthful and crazy, and not to keep close contact with them. That has changed over the last years, when I started to understand the fragility of relations, happiness, life itself. Again, one thing I did not share with most of you, I lost my mother a few months ago! My sister and I are still learning how to face this whole experience, and how this changes our life. It’s just the beginning, but sticking together as a family was a good starting point…

These were my thoughts at the beginning of the month, after having some time to think while I was at home. One song about "inalienable truths of life” is Baz Lunrhman’s Sunscreen, which plays in my headphones right now…