I mean, you never know where the day takes you, so there will always be some uncertainty in life. Yes, you may have a routine to follow, and the bowl next to the door to put your keys. But what about the mishaps that happen on a day-to-day? The time you forgot to even grab your keys from the bowl next to the door. You’re locked out and you’re after-work routine is ruined for the rest of the night. Personally, in the past, I would have sulked on the hallway floor, begging for the key to magically appear under the welcome mat. The last thing you want to do is problem solve, but you’re kinda forced into a corner– a door without a key. This may sound dreadful and your/my worst nightmare, but isn’t unpredictability in life the best part about it?
I mean, haven’t all the times you have forgotten your keys set you up with great problem-solving skills? It was time that you were forced to pick yourself up from the hallway floor and figure out what seems to be an unsolvable problem by yourself. Instead of burying in the shame and pain of making a mistake that you have to fix or blaming it on someone else, just think of it as a lesson to learn the hardway. A path that will make you a better person in the future. A person that will be able to help other’s when this unsolvable problem (a lost key) comes their way. This mindset may be a symptom of making multiple mistakes a day and having to figure out how to fix them. Honestly, I have left my keys multiple times in my life, but all those times I waited for a housemate or my parents to come, and in the meantime I’d get an ice cream cone. For anyone who wants to take this mindset of ‘this will make me a better person’ this is only set for certain problems that have been solved. Problems that have not harmed others.
The question this week is, where do I find unpredictability and ambiguity in my internship? Could I be able to answer every time they give me a task? See, I have been working on this presentation and every time they tell me to do something, its very loose, open-ended without a constructed path to do things. For example, the first thing they me to do is make a presentation about these companies merging, and the different variations that could happen. Not lying, I worked on that presentation for hours and thought of many different variations and possible scenarios. The next day, they tell me it’s great but fix the whole thing because they only wanted certain variations and scenarios. You know, instead of getting upset at them or at myself for putting in hard work– I kinda just forget about it and give the excuse that it’s life. Maybe not blaming it on the person who assigned me the task but the language barrier, or my lack of having courage to ask questions. Every experience lived, good or bad, It’s better to work and get experience than sitting in my bed at home (which I would be doing).
This past weekend I ended up in Vienna. The girls, my roommate and I met, went to Berlin, but we diverged from the path and ended up in Austria. Planning this trip and even navigating our way to Vienna was a huge learning curve. We faced a lot of problems that either showed me that I am not as organized as I think I am or my they taught me memorable lessons. When traveling to another country there is no time to sulk on the floor because you made a mistake, picking my roommate up from the floor, I kept us stable from every issue that we came across. Some advice when traveling, make sure you travel with someone that can problem solve. Our first day in Vienna, we went walking to look at various parks, gardens, and architecture. On our way to different cites, we ran into the Vienna Pride Parade. I have never been to a Pride Parade, despite my want to go to the New York City Pride Parade, so I was able to check something off my bucket list without even trying. That night, we split a burger and fries then walked around looking at the same cites, the only difference is the fountains stopped and the street lights turned on.
