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Hey guys, it’s been a while.

Last months were hectic, been having my up’s and down’s and most of all lots of work. But now I’m here … just where I longed for some time now to be. I now own my own company. And it feels good. Very good.

I remember being very frustrated somewhere in Autumn last year. I was finally getting somewhere when the whole thing collapsed and I had to start over again. The most difficult thing was to find someone I could trust, I could really rely on … but every now and then help comes from where you don’t expect. I ended up with someone I coached a few years ago during my last AIESEC EB experience. He’s one of the most patient people I know (I do believe I’m challenging his limits sometimes :)) and the whole experience brought us a little closer. It’s cool to talk together about next steps, work together till late in the night and feel excited and happy like little kids about every small step forward. It’s a new start and it’s just like I imagined it to be.

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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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While I was reading a friend‘s blog today, I stumbled up-on a video. Usually I don’t watch this kind of things, but my friend wrote in his post it would be worth my time.

I had the patience to wait for the YouTube video to load and started watching. By the middle of the video shivers were running down my spine. This video is one of the few leaving a mark, it shows how we often forget about the small things that can make our lives more enjoyable. Although it’s right there in front of us, we’re so engulfed in our daily routine and we just can’t see it.

Free Hugs is a true story and has become an Internet phenomenon:

• News.Com.Au
• The Sydney Morning Herald

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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.