The AIESEC Feel

Hello millions of AIESECers around the world, this is a hello from Indonesia!

So let me introduce you a little. I'm a president of one university in Indonesia, Multimedia Nusantara University, an LC to be. Yeay!

How do I feel? Terra tons of luck, pride and happiness to be a part of this enormous organization, connect with people in diversity.

Everyday is about AIESEC, about the world issues, about who volunteer abroad  and how is their unique story, about the people they inspire. It's about how they perform well in another country and show them that, "Se, together we can, Indonesia can do it too, together we are one!"

Everyday is about new people, new inspiring story. The new people is not only about one who live meters or kilometers away from you, it has billion billion possibilities, one from somewhere miles away, may be from the place you have never thought that it exist in some point of this world. Many unpredictable places!

Everyday is about how to raise the leadership of AIESECer. We share opinions, there are agreements and disagreements, but the last important thing is how we reshape our way of thinking and mix our ideas.

All the time we AIESECer chat and talk and have any conversations with those hundreds acronyms of us: MC, LC, LCP, OGX,OCX, and so on. It is ours and every new member have to be able to know their meanings. According to me, it makes AIESEC really is AIESEC.

Moving On

One of the hardest things to do is to move on. It takes the courage of letting go of the past - all the happy and pleasure memories, and a fear of losing - will someday in the future you gain the same or more  happiness that you left behind, or in the contrary, you do live in sorrow all the time.

We might be in a relationship that no longer works, or a job which no longer fulfills our needs, and yet still we cling on, hoping someday someone gonna pull that rope of turmoil, because clinging on is easier than letting go. Because we fear when we let go we will fall to the world of abyss, unknown place, and a fate worse than anything we could imagine. Thus we prefer to lead a life of disappointments rather than risk one of uncertainty.

And yet, to live a full life we must learn to move on and to let go of the past. We can not go through our lives backwards, always looking at what is behind us. Instead, we need to look ahead at our future and all the possibilities presented to us, however fearful.

While it is tempting to dwell on our disappointments, our dashed hope and wishful thinking, and while it is confirming to nurse our loathing and emotional hurts, these are also very things that shackle us to the past and prevent us from attaining our freedom to clasp the future.

My elder sister is a pragmatist, she taught me how to deal with disappointments. She know how I love learning languages. All the time, I had stressed myself out working hard for my level-up examination that my nervousness prevented me from doing well during the exams, jeopardising my grades. There is nothing quite like failure and being disappointed. For a young person, not getting what one wants can be a demolishing experience on a par with the end of the world. But my sister taught me the art of changing one's mind.

If, she said, after you have done all your best, try day and night but you still haven't been able to get what you want to reach, then by all means, just change your mind about it. Who says you have to have it just because you want it to be yours? There are many things you can do as long as you open up to other possibilities. Learn from the failure and upgrade yourself better, never dwell on the disappointments.

Nothing was worth getting depressed and disappointed about, that it took away one's capability to enjoy life to the fullest. In life, things rarely run the way we want it to be or rarely stay the same. This is the art of living, it makes life is interesting and worth living in.

Indeed, it is good to have dreams and to chase it, but it's even better to know that you are not chained to those dreams or to be slave to your disappointment when things don't go the way you want them.

Who knows, when we finally let go, far from falling into the abyss, we might find ourselves flying and soaring to new heights.

Solitude

It's been a long time since I put my bottom side-cheek to my cottony-bed. And the solitude I feel now, just the feeling of sitting with I, me, myself, and Renata; is one of the best solitude in the world. Business and schedules and college and tasks and a lot more, makes solitude becomes a luxury these days.

These days, it's hard to get away from people, especially for us living in big cities. Almost every minute of the day we are surrounded by people. At home, at campus, at work, in the mall, in places we go to during our holiday and to relax, we always and will always encounter people. It's hardly surprising perhaps, since on our planet Earth, there are already more than six billions of us populating the entire place.

While it's almost impossible to get away from people, and it's important to be with them - after all we humans are social animals - sometimes it's nice to be able to get away from crowd when we choose to and once in a while. Not only to enjoy some peace and quiet, but a little solitude is often necessary to find out if you can really enjoy your own company.

Now, for a lot of people, it's easier to find pleasure in other's company instead of their own. Time passes quicker when we're with others because we don't have to be focus on ourselves. And yet, in my experience, to be able to learn how to enjoy our solitude is an importance. After all, if we don't enjoy our own company, how could we expect other people to do so?

There are times when my friends or my family are so busy and that's the time when I am alone. I eat alone, I go alone, drink alone, do anything alone. These solitary moments teach me to appreciate being on my own.

Far from being lonely, what I felt was the comfort of being a good friend to myself and the pleasure of my own thoughts and my own time without being interrupted by others. It is also taught me that we shouldn't seek other people's company in order to escape from ourselves.

After all, we can be a lot more generous about spending quality time with others when we've already spent enough quality time with ourselves. So, don't be afraid to be alone. Because when you know how to enjoy solitude, you will never be lonely.