Do you remember those "State of the world" sessions from AIESEC national conferences? I do not know if they are still part of the agendas or maybe they are called now differently or maybe they are just re-designed.
I had to work today, so I got up around 04:40 AM, went to the office where I arrived at 05:20 AM and started my day of work. I came home almost 2 hours ago, at around 09:00 PM, but this is not going to be a post about my work, It's about how things are happening in my dear country and about some great young people I had the chance to meet this afternoon. As I was on my way home, in a taxi, the driver and I had a very interesting conversation about things that are changing from a day to another here in Bucharest; about a bridge for the railway who had to be repaired and moved higher and now after it's done they realized that it looks awful and some architects met for "finding solutions"; about how today a street is repaired and the sidewalk is replaced for having it broken and redone in 2 months; about how office buildings are just rising from the cement all around the city not taking into account our beautiful architecture, the urban styles and all the history still preserved all around; about how some can not just pull old buildings down, but they are just not doing anything waiting for those wonderful buildings to fall apart for them to use that piece of land to rise another glass and steel building.
And the conclusion was, "but you know, that's why the opposition party was removed from every institution, for not being anyone able to shout, to scream, to ask, why all this wastage, why is our money spent so without any common sense"? I tried not to reply as I do not like politics, but it seems that is all around me and we just can not be apart of it.
I had the chance today to talk to some young people that participated to some InBev assessment centers we held to our office and we talked about Romania, about misconceptions, about politics, about problems, about communism and about change. I could felt a shy attempt of hope, that things can improve, that not everything is lost, that we can make a difference, that we can fight everything and we can overcome what's not right and each and every obstacle. I know that probably now it's just my rise against everything and that probably they already forgot that discussion and that starting tomorrow everybody is going back to learning for an exam, or to going out with friends, or to God knows what, and things will just move forward as until now. This makes me so, so sad.
Yesterday and today were the most cold days of this winter and it was only -6 C degrees in Bucharest. I can not believe that I got used with so warm weather that I find that -6 C is too cold. What happen with our winters? what happened to my springs? I mean I could buy snowdrops in the end of January, I can buy now, middle of February blue-bells and daffodils, what's next?
And to get to the real thing, 4 counties from Romania have moved to desertification. We will have desert in Romania, :(( I mean I learned in the primary school that we have in Romania all kind of relief, we have mountains, hills, plain, sea, rivers, delta, the Danube, but I never learned that we can be so insensitive to what we have, I never learned that all this might end, might change at some point and that we will be the ones to be blamed for it. Why didn't they teach us this? Why didn't they tell us that we have to grow up and to preserve what we have, and to develop everything in a sustainable way? WHY?
I received a message these past days, I think it was translated from French to Romanian and I will try to translate it to you in English, I know it's just a message, but just try to read it, to understand it's meaning and to pass it forward, as we all know, the change starts with us.
so, stay close for the presentation
aura
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