Beautiful smiles in Stellenbosch, South Africa then decisions ….decisions!

In writing this note I was going through photos of my trip down to Stellenbosch (beautiful part of the country where the wealthy drink wine the whole dayJ ) for our Annual General Meeting 2005, the girls were on their way to the Gala dinner and the boys were just being boysl – check them out.

I keep on counting the days I have left towards finishing my term and a long AIESEC career, surprisingly I’m also getting calls from people I have not heard from in a long time – it’s like they know that I’m about to be back in the real world again where it’s a life of give and take and nothing else. That brings me to a dilemma of weather I should settle for a job here in SA (start a career path that will be beneficial for me financially and therefore I can assist my brothers as they are in University at the moment) or go on a traineeship (get an international experience and come back home with a global perspective therefore being more valuable in the market for a better job).

I argued with a friend of mine as he says that I should just settle for a job here in SA and just go on with life, my only problem is that I have lived my dream in AIESEC by travelling the world, working flexible hours with deadline and not office hours and dealing with impacting projects focusing on community and youth development, now should I just give that up with a permanent job or continue to live my dream and travel one more time – hoping that will change career path? Even with a job here in SA the question is should I settle for a ‘bliss paying job’ or ‘a job that brings me satisfaction’?

He went to say that I’m being stubborn and that I don’t have the luxury to have such high choice demands – but hey they say life is what you make of it – isn’t it?

I hope by end of this month I would have made up my mind

I then came across an interesting article in the mail & guardian about British teenagers not needing friends anymore … well I guess its hard not to in this ever advancing technological era where one can chat over mixit on their cell phones or a new more advanced product called yat, you’ll always find the person next to you clued to their phone for one reason or another and getting more and more anti-social.

I just hope though that we do not loose our human relations with these changes as I still value talking to someone and reading their facial expression about what I’m saying or hearing how their day went and perhaps having a blissful day because the smile they had when hearing their story brushed off on me. That for me is the beauty of human contact and that is something that technology will never be able to mimic as it is too valuable and unique to the human spicy only.