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This post may or may not make any sense to you. I just hope it does.

Why heroes? Well because heroes are the people we look up to when we’re young, because every one of us as a child wanted to be somebody’s hero. And because now, as I’m passing the threshold to adult life, my perspective changed a bit and I’m looking up to a different kind of hero.

My hero is good and noble, he stands up for what he believes in, makes right and wrong choices, and is true to his heart. My hero is not afraid to look within himself, find out what drives him and where he wants to reach, to discover what happiness means for him and what he mark he wants to leave behind. My hero is tuned to the people around him, to their happiness or sadness, to their failures or accomplishments, and he helps out without expecting anything back. My hero is younger than me, and is growing within the new generation. My hero is ordinary … my hero is you.

The Lion.

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Every year I keep telling myself “this is my last LTS”. I decided to drop this phrase, every year the same thing happens: I find myself on the LTS facilitators list. LTS was my first real AIESEC Conference where I had the most fun, where I discovered my first role-models, where I made my first friends, the place where I fell in love with AIESEC :).

If I look back I have so many memories, so many flash-backs from the last five years. I’ve seen five generation of people coming and going, many of them looking so scared and disoriented at first, growing, learning fast, becoming confident and bold and doing some of the most craziest and amazing things.

This LTS was special … well like every LTS is. For me, it felt good to work with old friends from Cluj-Napoca and Targu Mures, to watch the newies glow :), to actually mingle with some very bright people. I don’t know about you, but I find it most rewarding seeing people grow, having these “a-ha moments”, literally changing before your eyes. One of the sugar cubes I got was saying “I’m impressed with the intensity that you love people around you”. I can’t help it. Its a feeling I got at this conference, like being swamped with these emotions, these feelings. How can one not be touched by it?

In not so many words, I loved this LTS, it supercharged me with energy and positive feelings. This is what’s addicting about AIESEC :). This is why I’ll keep coming back. This is why I still go to the LC Meetings.

Message for the newies:
AIESEC has given me wings and learned me how to fly, maybe in one morning some of you will watch yourself in the mirror and see a shining pair of shiny white wings, maybe you’ll learn someday how to spread these wings and fly. It’s the most amazing feeling you’ll ever get. Don’t be afraid of what lies inside you, embrace the unknown and uncertain, be confident in your own powers, rediscover yourself and realize there are no limits of what you can do … and you’ll certainly get those wings.

The Lion.

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You might ask me, why I walk every morning to work. Why no matter the weather I always prefer to walk? Not so long ago I used to take a cab every morning to work. To tell you the truth, it was fast and comfortable but still. Nowadays, I prefer to walk.

Why? Because I get the coolest feeling walking down the street, listening to my favorite tune on my super phone, having my black sunglasses on, singing along with the tune I’m listening to. On the way to work I look for peoples faces and expressions. Some are worried, some sad, some bitter, some happy, some laughing. It’s gonna sound stupid, but I try to give a genuine smile to the worried, sad or bitter faces. Sometimes I get a weird look back, but most of the time I see their faces light up, lips stretching, worries and bitter disappear and I get the same genuine smile back. How is this possible, that something so little as a genuine smile can make worries, bitterness, sadness fade away? By giving away so little, I’ve lighten up someone’s day, perhaps only by a brief moment, but it’s something. It’s like building up my happy mood on my way to work and it’s sometimes helping me go trough a hard day.

You might wonder why I started this…

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Hello guys,

Right now I’m like living in a black hole. Too much has happened during the past 2 weeks and I hadn’t the time to really recover from all this. I had nothing but stupid and bad feelings to write about so I decided not to. Today tough, a friend of mine got in touch with me and gave me this poem that really touched something inside. I know I’ve recognized myself, moments of my life, in some of the verses bellow.

I Feared
I feared being alone
Until I learned to like
Myself.

I feared failure
Until I realized that I only
Fail when I don’t try.

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Bellow is one of the stories that touched me deeply in my first weeks of AIESEC some 5 years ago. I’ve been asked to remember it and wrote it down for a friend of mine and I decided to post it also here.

Starfish Story
In an early morning, a man was walking down a sandy beach. The previous night a big storm stroke and huge waves swept the sandy beach. The air was still moist and vapors were now rising from the unusual calm sea. The beach was now scattered an incredible amount of little yellow starfish the storm washed to the shore in the previous night. As the man walked down the beach he saw a little kid running back and forth to the point where the waves hit the beach carrying starfish of the beach into the sea.

When the man came closer, he asked the little kid: “Hey what are you doing? Don’t you realize that you can’t save all these starfish, it doesn’t matter how fast you are, they will die eventually on the sand of this beach. It won’t make any difference …”

The little kid, looked in the eyes of the man, walked towards the next starfish lying in the sand, picked it up and said “It will make a difference for this one!” and trowed it back into the sea.

Cheers,
The Lion.