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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.

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I’m once again breaking my commitment not to write in Romanian on my Blog, but the next few lines only mean something to Romanians and translating it would make it loose its flavor. Sorry for that ;).

Here goes nothing: Din cand in cand mai primesc si eu cate un mail mai special in Inbox, si pe asta nu m-a lasat inima sa nu-l postez aici.

Generatia X

Aceasta este o scrisoare nostalgica, adresata celor care fac parte din generatia NOASTRA, Generatia X.

Nascuti la sfarsitul anilor 70 si inceputul anilor 80, vedem acum in anul 2006 cum casa parintilor nostri este de 50 de ori mai scumpa decat atunci cand au cumparat-o ei, si realizam ca noi o sa platim pentru casele noastre in jur de 50de ani.

Nu avem amintiri despre primii pasi pe luna, nici despre razboaie sangeroase, dar ne pricepem la istorie si la politica mai mult decat cred batranii, care bombane in spatele nostru ca „noi nu stim nimic”.
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This poem has been awarded in 2005 as the best poem at an international literature contest. It’s written by an African kid:

When I born, I Black,
When I grow up, I Black,
When I go in Sun, I Black,
When I scared, I Black,
When I sick, I Black,

And when I die, I still black …
And you White fella,

When you born, you Pink,
When you grow up, you White,
When you go in Sun, you Red,
When you cold, you Blue,
When you scared, you Yellow,
When you sick, you Green,

And when you die, you Gray …
And you calling me Colored?

The Lion.

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There are some questions we need to ask ourselves from time to time, to try to get the big picture of US. I sometimes deeply think about:

Why am I here on this world?
Am I driving a change on this earth?
Is my work meaningful, does it have an impact if any at all?
Where am I heading?
What do I really want to do with my life?
Am I happy? Am I satisfied?
Is there more?
What’s my next big thing?
[…]

“Be the change you want to see in the world”
Mahatma Gandhi

The Lion.

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I’ve been trough some events in the past 20 days, events that made me think harder about what I want to do with my life, about friends, about meaning, about what’s really important in this life.

I got word about a friend of mine being involved in a car accident. Real bad, one of them didn’t make it. Fortunately, she made it trough, after some really terrible days for the people close to her, not knowing whether she’s going to live, not knowing whether she’s going to walk again … Terrible.

You see the world around you, people fighting, being injured, killed, every day. Just turn on your TV set, it’s all in the news. And you know what? We’re used just to nod our heads and change the channel, you never ever thing it’s going happen to you or the people you love and care about. You continue to bury yourself in little and unimportant things, to shout or argue because the most meaningless and idiotic reasons, you continue to work late or waste the time you’re supposed to be spending with your friends or loved ones, you think about your career or make big future plans for yourself … and you hurt the ones you love, your friends, your family.

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