Diversity and first mistake.. written during a Vivaldi concert..
The following lines contain my first big mistake as Local Committee President and what I felt and thought of during a Vivaldi concert that has been played in our LC wednesday evening (thank you Elena:).
I made a very close person to me cry and feel miserable just because one thing.. she was sincere.
"How to make your people start the road when everything seems to be obvious but it is still uncertain at every step that you do and you don't know what exactly can you do in order to make the others start.
If I am uncertain on what I have to do this year then the people around me are going to be uncertain also..if I don't know what is important for me for sure I cannot help them find out the answers to their questions and uncertainties.
We are listening to a Vivaldi concert in the trainign room.. and I realise in this oasis of silence that I've escaped from all the crazyness outside. Is this what I should want and strive for?..I don't really know.. I run after results and fame and glory, but if the people around me do not feel that they are moving forward.. why should I do it?
What great things can a man do while playing the violin, filling so many souls that are listening with happiness and peace, only by playing a single instrument. In AIESEC we are using tools more and more complicated, complex and difficult to handle, telling to ourselves that this will make us STRONGER..yes.. they will make us STRONGER, but we do not need this to "play the violin" called AIESEC.. it is not about the physical strenght but the mental one, of understanding what we feel, what we think and in the end of what we do.
I ask for forgiveness to the person I have hurt, for asking too much, for asking for STRENGHT and not so much for MASTERY...because I realise day after day that this are the people I want around me, people that use what they have to do better, to create magical things out of insignificant ones.
Today I saw a man crying... due to one question, a question that maybe was not supposed to be asked by me. Should I stop asking?
I don't know.. but for sure I should stop writing and start listening to the concert..
Mugur "
After a short time of listening to the concert, I was struck by some amazing feelings and storm of thoughts.. and here is what came out.
"On the other hand I've changed my mind... AIESEC should not be like a Vivaldi symphony. Because nobody can dictate how things should go, how a Local Committee should be lead. AIESEC is the place where everybody can bring what he/she has best or discovers along the way... and ideally we are and should strive to remain a culture of diversity, in which a man should "play the violin" (with grace, an exclusivist culture and music) while in the other side of the organization somebody is DJ-ing the latest track of Armin van Buuren (hard, fast, modern).
A culture of white collars and formality should represent everything but AIESEC. A culture in which everything is run by a band master and everybody follows the notes written on a scale, in which if somebody misses a note everything wrong... is a nightmare for AIESEC.
... We are and should remain diverse because diversity is the future and the people that are around us should be and in the same time inspire and encourage diversity...
..of feelings
..of being
..of believing
..of creating"
Just be..
Mugur
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