A life outside AIESEC
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
- oh yes there is one!
Many people - if not most- think that I don't have a life outside AIESEC merely because I spend 6 to 8 hours a day in the office. Actually, what they don't know is... my life outside New Zealand is no AIESEC at all.
Little did they know, while I'm sitting here in front of our dusty computer I actually socialising with my mates outside the country. Due to time difference, this is the only time I could actually talk to most of them through MSN and/or replying to emails and/or updating blog (like what I'm doing now).
Speaking about the life outside AIESEC, during my first 17 years of life apparently I have built an extensive network of friends myself, without even knowing it. People just come and go in my life and sometimes they came back sometimes they don't. Amongst those people who went and came back there's my primary school friend. We lost touch for a little less than 10 years. Thanks to friendster, now we're exchanging postcards! There are other people as well who came back from the past and we just picked up our friendship right where we left off.
Some people know me for ever, or for a looong time, or even for a couple of years. When I come to think about it, it's amazing how close I am with those I knew for a couple of years in comparison to those I knew for a longer while. I have been in a situation where I left my friends and where my friends left me. This kinda proves my own little theory about time and proximity dictates your degree of friendship.
There are people who were my close friends but as the space between us grew the friendship we had kind of grew apart. How it happened is still a mystery to me but that's a natural thing to happen, I guess... maybe... hmmm..(I'm a firm believer that relationship should not changed just because of time and space.)
But.., there are two individuals that value friendship as much as I do. We knew each other for 9 years, of which I spent 4 years away from them. But nothing has changed between us, our friendship has passed the test of time and space. (It passed with an A- ;). We have our own little life somewhere in the corner of the world but we kept in touch still and the best thing is we're still as good friends as we were before.
Well, some people might come and go out of my life but the friends I made in NZ certainly outweight those who goes and doesn't come back. And I believe I also have made a life-long friends in AIESEC. So, no more bollocks saying I'm spending too much time in the office, thank you very much. :p
Many people - if not most- think that I don't have a life outside AIESEC merely because I spend 6 to 8 hours a day in the office. Actually, what they don't know is... my life outside New Zealand is no AIESEC at all.
Little did they know, while I'm sitting here in front of our dusty computer I actually socialising with my mates outside the country. Due to time difference, this is the only time I could actually talk to most of them through MSN and/or replying to emails and/or updating blog (like what I'm doing now).
Speaking about the life outside AIESEC, during my first 17 years of life apparently I have built an extensive network of friends myself, without even knowing it. People just come and go in my life and sometimes they came back sometimes they don't. Amongst those people who went and came back there's my primary school friend. We lost touch for a little less than 10 years. Thanks to friendster, now we're exchanging postcards! There are other people as well who came back from the past and we just picked up our friendship right where we left off.
Some people know me for ever, or for a looong time, or even for a couple of years. When I come to think about it, it's amazing how close I am with those I knew for a couple of years in comparison to those I knew for a longer while. I have been in a situation where I left my friends and where my friends left me. This kinda proves my own little theory about time and proximity dictates your degree of friendship.
There are people who were my close friends but as the space between us grew the friendship we had kind of grew apart. How it happened is still a mystery to me but that's a natural thing to happen, I guess... maybe... hmmm..(I'm a firm believer that relationship should not changed just because of time and space.)
But.., there are two individuals that value friendship as much as I do. We knew each other for 9 years, of which I spent 4 years away from them. But nothing has changed between us, our friendship has passed the test of time and space. (It passed with an A- ;). We have our own little life somewhere in the corner of the world but we kept in touch still and the best thing is we're still as good friends as we were before.
Well, some people might come and go out of my life but the friends I made in NZ certainly outweight those who goes and doesn't come back. And I believe I also have made a life-long friends in AIESEC. So, no more bollocks saying I'm spending too much time in the office, thank you very much. :p
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June 24, 2005 1:21 PM
ooh please send me that pic of giedre u and me...i promise i'll send u the one at loaded hog...sorry btw!!