Missing AIESEC

I felt weird the last two days and I didn't know what was bothering me, but I finally realized. Today it's three weeks ago I said goodbye to the last AIESECer I saw in person. And after I read a lot of blogs yesterday, the majority of course of some AIESECers working somewhere in the organization or doing internships, I realized how much I miss them.

The one thing is missing people as persons, which I discovered before, there are just not enough people around to have meaningful conversations with and that is alright, that's what Skype was invented for and luckily there are also a few here. But what hit me yesterday was that I was missing the AIESEC spirit. How fluffy is that.

But considering that throughout the whole last year I was always surrounded by people sharing the same values, ideals and vision (some more than others), it's not that difficult to understand. And only now I realize how important it is for me to be a part of that. And how hanging out in Copenhagen, with the highest common goal of a group to find a cheap place to drink and myself only caring about what to wear the next days annoys me more and more. Of course I won't change the group's vision here from "finding a place to party" to "peace and the fulfilment of humankinds potential", but I will definitely start with myself and try to have some more spirit in me. My courses here for example are an excellent tool to understand society and how the world works, which is an important prerequisite to impacting it in some way. So apart from my academic ambition, I also have another good reason to study :D. And I will use all the different people and cultures surrounding me here to find out what drives them and enhance my intercultural understanding. And of course prepare for my CEED, which is only a month away. I am so looking forward to start doing AIESECwork again, especially because to start off I am going to the National OGX Meeting of AIESEC in Canada, finally, after 5 months, another congress for me.

All these thoughts show me that I made the right decision not to leave the organization yetand that it will probably might take some time until I will. There's just too much out there.