all i want for Christmas is you...

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Episode – coincidence – biography….

One of the books that I finished lately is "immortality" by milan kundera. a great piece of reading full of paradoxes that makes you think about the meaning of your life and the meaning of love, immortality etc...

I felt that one particular exerpt - among many others - is very true. It's long but at the same time it's intriguing...

"In Aristotle “Poetics”, the episode is an important concept. Aristotle did not like episodes. According to him, an episode, from the point of view of poetry, is the worst possible type of event. It is not an unavoidable consequence of preceding action, nor cause or what is to follow; it is outside the casual chain of events which is the story. It is merely a sterile accident which can be left out without making the story lose its intelligible continuity, and it is incapable of making a permanent mark upon the life of the characters. You take the metro to meet that woman in your life and a moment before you arrive at your station a girl you don’t know and haven’t noticed before ( after all, you have a date with that woman in your life and are oblivious to everything else) suddenly faint and is about to collapse. Because you are standing right next to her, you catch her and hold her in your arms for a moment until she opened her eyes. You help her sit down in a seat which someone has vacated for her and because at that point the train suddenly slows down, you free yourself from her with an almost impatient movement so that you can getoff and rush after that woman in your life. At that instant the girl whom you held in your arms just a moment earlier is completely forgotten. This event is a typical episode. Life is as stuffed with episodes as a mattress with horsehair, but a poet (according to Aristotle) is not an upholsterer and must remove all stuffing from his story, even though real life consists of nothing but precisely such stuffing.
For Goethe meeting Bettina was an insignificant episode; from a quantitative viewpoint, she took up only a tiny interval of his lifetime, and moreover Goethe tried as hard as he could to prevent her from ever playing a causal role in his life, assiduously keeping her outside his biography. But it is precisely here that we realize the relativity of the concept of the episode, a relativity Aristotle did not think through: for nobody can guarantee that some totally episodic event may not contain whiting itself a power that some day could unexpectedly turn it into a cause of further events. When I say some day, it can even be after death; this was precisely Bettina’s triumph, for she became part of Goethe’s life story when he was no longer alive.
We can this complete Aristotle’s definition of the episode and state: no episode is a priori condemned to remain an episode for ever, for every event, now matter how trivial, conceals within itself the possibility of sooner or later becoming the cause of other events and thus changing into a story or adventure. Episodes are like landmines. The majority of them never explode, but the most unremarkable of them may some day turn into a story that will prove faithful to you. You may be walking down the street and from the opposite direction will come a woman who, while still far away, will look straight into your eyes with a gaze that seem rather crazy to you. As she comes closer, she slows down, stops and says: “is that really you? I’ve been looking for you for such a long time!” And throws her arms around your neck. It is the same girl who fainted and fell into your arms as you were taking the metro to see the woman pf your life, who in the meantime has become your wife and has given you a child. But the girl who encountered you unexpectedly in the street has decided to fall in love with her saviour and to regard your chance meeting as an intimation of fate. She will phone you five times a day, write you letters, visit your wife and keep explaining to her that she loves you and has a right to you until that woman in your life loses her patience, spitefully goes to bed with the refuse collector and then runs away from home, taking the child with her. And in order to escape from the lovesick girl who has in the meantime transferred all the contents of her cupboards into your apartment, you flee across the ocean where you die in hopeless misery. If our lives were endless like the lives of the gods of antiquity, the concept of episode would lose its meaning, for in infinity every event, no matter how trivial, would meet up with its consequence and unfold into a story (...)
Biography: sequence of events which we consider important to our life. However, what is important and what isn’t? because we ourselves don’t know (and never even think of putting such a silly question to ourselves) we accept as important whatever is accepted by others, for example by our employer, whose questionnaire we will fill out: date of birth, parents’ occupation, changes of occupation, domicile, marriages, divorces, births of children, serious diseases. It is deplorable but it is a fact: we have learned to see our lives through the eyes of business or government questionnaires.”"

so - what is important to you?

what is the link between the below situations...

When

Your team mates and flat mates are from different countries and cultures as: Germany, USA, Ireland

your flat is turning into a hostel....

the hot topics of debate and action for most of your days are: leadership, sustainable development, how to make the world a better place....

You have just attended an international conference in Poland where you had the chance to meet people from more than 90 countries...


You wait for your boyfriend to enter the messenger in order to have a chat with him - cuz he's at 2000 km away from you....

a friend just got a scholarship from ING Bank after entering their management trainee program in Bucharest...

Another friend will be moving ro Paris and joining the Alcatel headquarters there for a year....

Another friend finishes her work in Bahrain and wants to go to Poland to get a job and then begin a master degree somwhere in Europe...

another friend will be going to Kuwait to sign a contract with Starbucks in Egypt...

another friend thinks of doing an international term in Mexico or another country next year,

you just discovered that your friend from Norway has the same favourite book - read in the last year - as you have

another friend is in Vienna thinking startegies on how to Develop people for the Austrians - and another one is thinking how to develop people Globally in an organization:)...

another friend wanted to go to Ecuador, but then rennounced, cuz the couple life is too important for her,

you help people to go abroad and return or continue their journey through life - and have the experinces of their lives ....

you know what you want to do with your life but you don't know what you'll do the next year

so - what happens?
What's the link?
what are the other situations connected by trhe same link?

I've been tagged ...

Yes ...so if you don't like this post or you just simply love it ....go to AINE's blog:
and address her all your complaints or compliments :p


I am thinking about...
the world - that I've experienced in just 2 weeks at International Congress in Poland

I said...
Open your heart


I want to...
Make AIESEC in IRELAND the best place to be at any moment, now or future


I wish...
to see the sun shining in Dublin as it is right now ...all the afternoons :)

I miss...
Romania,Vama Veche, Lipa, Buzghi, my family, Deedee, Ale,Mugur ,Tudor,Anca,The sun,Meeshoo, Ada, Oana, Almitza, Gabi Calin ,Viorel, Alexis, Cosmin, Vlad Isac, Ralucutza, Mada ,Mo,Sorin, Mara, Ame,Zeno,Bebe Sibiu,Sorina,Sorina Manica,Beb, Doru, gavan, vlad dogaru, Iulica iasi, Irisa, Gabitza, Cornelia, Serdar , Oana Paun, Remus Andrei, Dani Patru, Andi Rostock, Alina Marian, Codruta, Dodo, Paul, Elena Sevastianov, Mada TM, Marina, Alinautza TM,Andreea TM , Magdutza,Nico, Alinutza, Andrei Chirea, Victor Chirea,Ruxi, Polizu, Bale, Alex Dumitru, Cristi Vormicu, Gabi, Ceachir,Lacramiaoara, mihaela Geangu, lili, Mishu,Balazs,Stefutz, Bianca, Cristina Gheaus, Sandra Pascalis, Elena Bostina, Casta Haro, Ellen, Thomas, Irina ricinschi, Jurate, Adina Dumitrescu , Pascu , Schumi, Tzuca, adi rusu, sh, emi , Andra, Mack ,Bruno , Sztandar, Dan Rosca, Juan, ALbert, Borge, Anton, Zuska, Olivia,Ioana pavel....and the list goes on ...


I hear...
world, hold on (Bob Sinclair)

I wonder...
Why?


I regret...
Nothing.


I am...
irish by nature

I dance...
inside

I sing...
Rotterdam or anywhere...

I cry...
often..

I am not always...
fun, exciting, focused, patient...

I write...
not as often as I would want to

I confuse...
everybody :)

I need...
some bulmers, the brazen head, a yacht, the sea, Vama Veche in Romania, a quiet place

I should try...
to open my heart...

I finish...
now

I tag all the people that read my blog and see themselves in the list above or in my thoughts ...

crime

crime
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....All I want, is an ordinary moment here with you - no distractions
Tell the world, that you're busy doing nothing. Cancel everything - let it go
Meet me in the kitchen at the table - I just want to be alone with you
Stare into the eyes I've been missing. Don't say anything - you don't need to
Did you know that it's a crime to never find the time to love?...

It is a crime...it's a crime for all the emotions inside...

my new irishhh team

new MC
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Oh, didn't I tell you?
I'am going to have one of the best year of my life in the National Team of AIESEC in Ireland.

What is that? What is AIESEC?
Well AIESEC is the place where I've grown, learned for the last 3 years, the place where I met a lot of friends - for life - that strangely, had, are having or will have a fantastic international experience :) More on this on one of the next posts.

The whole thing with the Irishhhh MC started 3 years ago at EuroLDS in Malaga where I met some of the best people...some irishhhh folks...Elizabeth O'Brian- in a conversation that I'd never forget - told me for more than an hour how beautiful Ireland is - and how - I should get there :) Well I said - I will - And you'd better prepare that Guinness when I arrive :p

So, having a chat with Russell about how can I join a conference in their country - he told me that it is difficult to be in the Irish MC - I'd have to work part time, etc....

So what ? I've said :P

And in February 2006 I started my application for the Irish MC...and I had the certainty that it will happen - and it did.

Well yes, and in the picture you can see my team mates, the people which I will share with all the joyful and the crying moments.

So this is post for you guys!!!

From left to right:
Aine - MCP (president) - she's the irish one
Jochen MCVP ICX (exchange) - the german one
Coleen - MCVP PD (People Development)- the american one (with irish roots :)

When I get in the picture - after I get to Dublin- after I get my visa - I'll tell you smth about my role in there too...

Until then ,

Peace & love ( like a good friend was saying :)

Prue

Attitude...no comment

nadal winning
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"What is important is that my attitude was always positive," Nadal said. "I had a winner's attitude. What is positive is maybe that I was not playing at my best level, but I still maintained an excellent attitude. And if you play with a good mental attitude, even if you are not a hundred per cent, you can win because, in fact, you win more with your heart, with your will power than with anything else."

full article at
http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/news/articles/2006-06-11/200606111150039906600.html