Rush hour, too much people everywhere. Walk fast, don’t interrupt the flow. Stay on your right, take a few hurried steps on the left to get pass. How can anybody be so slow! Run, you don’t want to miss the buss. There’s at least ten minutes untill the next one.
Stop! Let’s do this again.
Rush hour, lot of different people around. You don’t want to walk too fast and miss all their intresting faces. Create your own flow and let peole in a hurry pass you. Why are they all in such a rush, what is it for? There’s no need to run, another bus will leave in only ten minutes.
Do these scenarios sound familiar to you? If so, I hope it’s both of them. If not, then I encourage you to try them and find out which one feels better. I dare to claim that it’ll be the latter.
In my totally non-scientific and based on feeling examinations of human behavior, I’ve come to the conclusion that is is definately seeing the glass half full, instead of half empty that gives us all a better drive. And believe me, I’ve personally tried them both. Keeping one’s expectation low does give a better protection against disappointments, but really, what can you ever achieve with low expectations? What would our world be like if everyone did that?
This applies to people as well. If I don’t embrace the opportunities to meet new people and believe that they can teach me more about myself, my world and visions would be really quite small. The friends I already have are the best to have but should I keep it to that? Does it mean I don’t have room for new friends and for new experiences? Take a wild guess.
If I hadn’t taken the small steps to become active in Centre Youth, I would’ve never had the chance to try and fullfill my own potential by, for example writing this small column for you to read. I would’ve never met so many inspiring young people, different individuals gathered together by certain values and beliefs about our common society and how to make it better. Also, I wouldn’t have such a strong feeling of being a part of this huge group of people called society. In Centre Youth I genuinely feel that I’m making a difference, in my own and other people’s lives.
So, I strongly recommend for You too to take part in our or other youth organisations in Finland. And there are plenty. Taking part means meeting new people and widening your perspectives. It also means being around people who see the glass half full but who, and this is the spice of it, also get you involved in very intresting discussions about why is the glass half full, by who and how.
My favorite subject is how to make the glass fuller, for everyone. You are more than welcome to join us in this discussion! There will be action too.
My column published on the 1st issue of IceBreaker. Will link it to you later.
