Monday, January 17, 2005
In Pursuit of Personal Legends
Pre-midlife crisis.
This is a term Donata coined 4 years ago, as she got ready for graduation and her traineeship to Egypt. I pull it out of my sock drawer sometimes, only to wonder if I'm going coo-coo from it too.
We are so youthful, with the energy and potential to do anything. It's also because we are unskilled and malleable. The career ladder climb flickers before us, forcing us to look up, while covering our behind. Each step we take may be a heavenly ascendence up the career elevator - or - a bad break-up that lingers with foul stenches at your next job.
We repeat this climb, and somehow one thing leads to another. So you want to do it right. No mess ups whatsoever. The trepidation for failure makes us paranoid about choices.
Owais and I used to talk of personal legends. Will we do something in AIESEC that leaves a remarkable impact that people will talk about years and years after you leave? Well, maybe not. But we are egoistic creatures who secretly or publicly desire to say "I was the ONE".
The AIESEC community is made of these egoists who want to be the ONE. I won't deny it - I do too. Some people are already doing it. Some are jealous that small entrepreneurs are doing these wonderful things. Some are Jedi in training and digging deep into studies or their specialties hoping to be the ONE some day.
I have a dream too. It's not a new idea (Global Entrepreneurs, H.E.R.O. for Children, MindValley, to name a few), but I hope I live through it to realize it.
As we all travel through this search for being individual ONEs, we inspire each other and create our own personal legends. But when this can be connected and the ONEs find cooperation at the right time, the legend will even be greater.
Still in training... Getting there... And staying connected...
This is a term Donata coined 4 years ago, as she got ready for graduation and her traineeship to Egypt. I pull it out of my sock drawer sometimes, only to wonder if I'm going coo-coo from it too.
We are so youthful, with the energy and potential to do anything. It's also because we are unskilled and malleable. The career ladder climb flickers before us, forcing us to look up, while covering our behind. Each step we take may be a heavenly ascendence up the career elevator - or - a bad break-up that lingers with foul stenches at your next job.
We repeat this climb, and somehow one thing leads to another. So you want to do it right. No mess ups whatsoever. The trepidation for failure makes us paranoid about choices.
Owais and I used to talk of personal legends. Will we do something in AIESEC that leaves a remarkable impact that people will talk about years and years after you leave? Well, maybe not. But we are egoistic creatures who secretly or publicly desire to say "I was the ONE".
The AIESEC community is made of these egoists who want to be the ONE. I won't deny it - I do too. Some people are already doing it. Some are jealous that small entrepreneurs are doing these wonderful things. Some are Jedi in training and digging deep into studies or their specialties hoping to be the ONE some day.
I have a dream too. It's not a new idea (Global Entrepreneurs, H.E.R.O. for Children, MindValley, to name a few), but I hope I live through it to realize it.
As we all travel through this search for being individual ONEs, we inspire each other and create our own personal legends. But when this can be connected and the ONEs find cooperation at the right time, the legend will even be greater.
Still in training... Getting there... And staying connected...
// posted by sakit @ 8:29 PM 
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