And why they call Grab the opportunity ! An opportunity that took me through a journey. A journey that had its moments , and moments that turned into memories. Another busy month , days that counted and a step higher.
Leadership was a very general term I had learnt to define long back in school . An unhesitating blabber of this daily used high school term , in the most confident manner , was what I suppose got me into AIESEC. This journey has only put me in a better position to mock the previous me , having got to actually experience the term now.You never know how small things teach things unless you've noticed the big changes in even smaller duration of time. Pushing myself (the lazy girl,I can proudly say I "used to be") , and expanding my limitations I realized how vague the term seemed at the end of it. The marked difference of things on paper and being there , doing what needs to done when all those paper work fail ~ From the planner to do doer !All my summer days I had sat back thinking where exactly I had lacked last year (apparently after a terrible year academically )and it had appeared to be exactly the above stated difference.
Lead - Yes, something I thought I had done in high school , a quarter of the school under me with me as the House Captain . A much smaller number to lead this time ,but these were the people of my age ,some even my friends- to lead and yet to not make them followers was a task .It begun with a lot of hiccups , but happily ended up with increasing the count of friends.There was much more than just the so called lessons of life .On a personal note ,tears outnumbered smiles, but then they have always been able to touch more deeply. Tears that rolled sometimes , in front of strangers after a messed up day to those in front of the same strangers turned friends after a good one..Also tears that were pushed back after the ugly fights with still the same strangers then turning friends.
I don't care if a thousand other platforms could offer me the same opportunity that AIESEC does , I still would go on to brag how special it is. I begun with calling this experience a journey ,the possibility that only it makes.A journey coz I know where I begun from and where I've come , a journey coz I traveled, and shared , with people for whom small things do matter . A journey that took off with me in a closed shell never wanting to share and has come to me actually writing this on a public forum.One that begun with me forcing my members to come on time and ended up with them reaching even before me. The biggest smile on my face comes seeing each one of them transform , and that I would call as the beginning of anything close to leadership in me.
