Yesterday was a good day. I had time to work, to develop NGO, to cook and to chat to Tricia (my flatmate), to post pictures and even have time to learn how to work out movie maker. Moreover, I even had time to reply to emails. Because yesterday was a full day on the email side. I guess somehow I am thankful today for the internet being so unreliable here and that no emails can come in or out because I will not have that temptation of checking what the corner of the screen is popping out.
There was one common pattern in the emails yesterday, which was a reaction to yesterday’s post (I guess people don’t like to post in blogs!). Many of you friends were impressed with the work I was doing in the NGO, how the kids looked so sweet, how the post was so full of emotion. I think in the most touching email Teeba said I was her inspiration. Now, hence my title, it is not me.
We all have this inside us and some people are fortunate enough to have been able to meet the right people and have the right life experience that gets you a “competitive advantage” (Harvard jargon) in starting of these things. But I would not be more than a start-up if it was not for you. This is how “a little gesture” started. It started from people being able to understand that if we all do little gestures we will be a great help. And that is all I did, opened up the way for you to be a “star”, as Adrien wrote to me today. All I did, as Mukti would say (my EM professor) was to ignore my limitations and surround myself with the right people to make my enterprise grow. And in my case, this was easy, because the right people were my friends, my family, and friends of friends and family.
It is not me, it is you. You are the ones who put the smiles in the kids’ faces and inspire me to tell you the stories of what you achieve!
Yesterday the internet in Argentina did not cooperate so no update. The day in Mendoza was great, with the nice and small family Vineyard of Altos de Hormigas being one of my favourites. They were very nice and the Malbec reserva the one that finally convinced me to like Malbec! We still had one more vineyard to go, Familia Zucatti, where we had a great lunch but the tours was already too much, we prefered to walk around on our own. But again, very different and very worth it! Today, we added Tevia to the group (after she came in my room at 5am) and repeated the Cemeterio since Tev and Shilps had not seen it, and then Malba. Surprise, surprise. Buenos Aires is not a small city but we still managed to run into Nitin and Ted in the Museum! We had a nice lunch with them and went for some more sightseeing in the afternoon. We went to Plaza de Mayo where the Casa Rosa is, walked down Calle Florida, the shopping street and up to Plaza San Martn for an excellent night view of the city. No
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you do.. and I said in the email, I must emphasize this again and say that it's true that a lot of it has to do with "meet the right people and have the right life experience" but the other half of the chunck has to do with you taking advantage of it.. because I know so many people might have
opportunities but never seized them.. and this is where
the main difference comes between you and others....... :*
yes it is you
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