For centuries the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors - between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.
You know that point where you’re waiting for the bus, and you know the distance isn’t very far for you to travel, and you can either wait for the bus or walk? I do, and I would love to see a mathematical proof about the subject, because there is defiantly a crux upon which it becomes pointless to wait any longer. There is also a point where you get so frustrated that it’s probably better for your mental health to walk- and when you decide to do this the bus will undoubtedly pass you in the next two minuets- in this situation I recommend the following: smile, take a deep breath and shout: “I’m walking, and I’m all the more happy because of it!â€
AIESEC spouts ideas of revolutions, of impact, and the peaceful fulfillment of humankinds potential. Ideas all worth fighting for, in their greatest and smallest aspects, but they are ideas you HAVE to fight for.
Here in Kenya there is a word “Jobo†which very closely relates to work, but is not just the surface aspect of work, but the idea of your life being encompassed and consumed by your work (kinda like AIESEC). When you are joboing, your work becomes your life, and to be honest it’s a wonderful feeling. On the side of Joboing Is… waiting, something that as the late Dr. Suse emphasized: is a place you don’t want to be, and waiting happens here all to much.
When you wait you aren’t doing much of anything, it’s a very reactive position, and instigates almost nothing; it’s driven many of my fellow workers here on the brink of insanity. Ergo when someone sets up a time for a meeting, I have to bring a book, or my laptop and continue my work and not expect anyone to be one time, it’s very depressing in it’s own right.
If you wait for a regime to fall, or for your grades to improve, or for you to become older, or for the economy to get better you just proving that you *are not good* at what ever you do and you can’t overcome the obstacles that exist, go you.
I’ve become very proactive here, and I’ve gotten allot out of it. I’ve also gotten in trouble because I step on peoples toes when they feel I’m doing their job (and I feel they aren’t). But I wouldn’t have it any other way, because in the end, if your experience (and by that I mean life) is screwed up because some one else didn’t do their job, blaming them doesn’t help you in the long run, no does it?
So go change the world, go run with the lions, and go mess up a few orderly situations to see change, and go fight to good fight and reap the rewards of your victory. Do it because if you don’t, no one else will. If we all lived like that, and didn’t depend on others to change the world for us, “Waiting for the world to change,†then this would be a hell of a lot better place.
*If you thoughts this was un-organized, sporadic, and not thought out enough, good for you, maybe you should write something about it- If you’re not on this blog and would like to submit a relevant article, then send it to me at sean.kolk@gmail.com , because I’m open to criticism, as long as you actually do something with it and not just *wine in a very annoying manner* like everybody else. *The post has been edited because little children read the amazing content on this blog to further their world view, and broaden their global view- and because of this should not be exposed to dirty and unsavory words*
