The great advantage of having a reputation for being stupid: People are less suspicious of you...
After graduating in December 2005 from a highly strenuous and incredibly interactive/worthwile Commerce degree I have come to realise that I have lost touch with a lot of people from my school days. But to be quite honest it is the people that I have met and maintained a very special closeness within the last year who have had the most impact on my life to date. So in conclusion I don't really care about the others!
And that's my two cents...
No, I do have something more to say as usual ;-). I often catch up with these girls from school at 21sts, drunken Saturday nights out or a casual movie night here and there. But when I do it is so bizarre to have conversations with them. It often goes something like this...
Me: "So what have you been up to?"
School Friend: "Oh nothing much, me and my bf saw a movie last night, mainly work and uni homework etc etc... How about you?"
Now yes my life is basically that exciting too :-P AND NOT THAT THAT IS A BAD THING! But recently to think of some of the stuff I have been doing in AIESEC, work and travel I often feel like I can only retort... "Yeah same for me..you know, uni, work and stuff and things."
Its like when you try to tell someone you are in AIESEC by explaining it as "going out with uni friends" or being in a "uni organisation..." To come out and splurge to someone... "well actually last week I met with the Director of HR for Department of Admin and Info Services and next week I am meeting with the CEO of Save the Children" or, "I just spent 5 days writing 2 business proposals and action plans for this P-BoX I am a Project Manager for..."
yeah well I can just see the blank stares already :-)
But to tell you the truth, like I said before, I really couldn't care less. I know that in 10 years time I will look back on the experiences I am engaging in now and realise that what I was doing at 21 was something kinda cool, was slightly abnormal and did deserve blank stares.
Even moreso in the past year I have worked out that what has ensured a growing seperation between me and my high school friends is the different stages of growth we are experiencing. We are growing in different directions but the really cool thing is that as I have turned down a different path I have met up with new people.
I have developed some amazingly strong friendships with people who are experiencing similar emotions, big world ideas and wanting to challenge their future pathways. I can't wait to spend even more hours telling them about "what I have been doing" - how many hours I just spent working on AIESEC proposals or that I have just returneed from an AIESEC conference in the Philippines, or that first years were annoying me in my uni classes I was teaching today... And not just getting a blank stare but a canvas of emotions and opinions engaging in the conversation.
And that's my two cents...
No, I do have something more to say as usual ;-). I often catch up with these girls from school at 21sts, drunken Saturday nights out or a casual movie night here and there. But when I do it is so bizarre to have conversations with them. It often goes something like this...
Me: "So what have you been up to?"
School Friend: "Oh nothing much, me and my bf saw a movie last night, mainly work and uni homework etc etc... How about you?"
Now yes my life is basically that exciting too :-P AND NOT THAT THAT IS A BAD THING! But recently to think of some of the stuff I have been doing in AIESEC, work and travel I often feel like I can only retort... "Yeah same for me..you know, uni, work and stuff and things."
Its like when you try to tell someone you are in AIESEC by explaining it as "going out with uni friends" or being in a "uni organisation..." To come out and splurge to someone... "well actually last week I met with the Director of HR for Department of Admin and Info Services and next week I am meeting with the CEO of Save the Children" or, "I just spent 5 days writing 2 business proposals and action plans for this P-BoX I am a Project Manager for..."
yeah well I can just see the blank stares already :-)
But to tell you the truth, like I said before, I really couldn't care less. I know that in 10 years time I will look back on the experiences I am engaging in now and realise that what I was doing at 21 was something kinda cool, was slightly abnormal and did deserve blank stares.
Even moreso in the past year I have worked out that what has ensured a growing seperation between me and my high school friends is the different stages of growth we are experiencing. We are growing in different directions but the really cool thing is that as I have turned down a different path I have met up with new people.
I have developed some amazingly strong friendships with people who are experiencing similar emotions, big world ideas and wanting to challenge their future pathways. I can't wait to spend even more hours telling them about "what I have been doing" - how many hours I just spent working on AIESEC proposals or that I have just returneed from an AIESEC conference in the Philippines, or that first years were annoying me in my uni classes I was teaching today... And not just getting a blank stare but a canvas of emotions and opinions engaging in the conversation.
2 Comments:
You go girl! I think that what you're doing is so great and I can't wait to catch up and hear about all that you're up to! Always keep the door open to all your friends, even if they don't seem so interested now - we're all having different experiences and one day they might just have some amazing story of changing the world that you wanna hear about ;-) PJ
hey sweets. hope our paths could cross again
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