Tonight I went to a lecture organised by NextGen, a movement started by several intelligent Mongolians who believe that the next generation is here already and it's up to us to make change. The speaker was the director of Zorig Foundation, one of the oldest and almost founding NGO of the democratic civil society movement in Mongolia. The topic was civil society and participation and what this meant for the director and his organisation. The Q&A session naturally opened up much wider discussions from everyone who came and for the first time in a long while since my return I've found my head racing and my blood rushing.
An exercise of the mind, plus a quick swim in the morning for an exercise of the body has given me such a reinvigoration, I'm reminded of why I chose to move back to Mongolia. There exists such energy, passion and drive to do, make, create and leave our mark in history. It's so easy to be absorbed into the struggles of everyday life, and recently with renovations left right and centre, new job and resettling, I am guilty of absorption too. And tonight it was good to let myself think in abstract even for a few minutes, about issues that have real meaning to me. If anyone is aware of the Getting Things Done (GTD) system, then you'll agree that it felt like I had a good old rummage through my Someday/Maybe folder, and flew at 50,000 feet. Once again I'm happy to be here, ready to do my part.
Thoughts of a woman living in Mongolia but dreaming amongst the stars.
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Saturday, 20 April 2013
This time last year
Like I mentioned in my last entry I'm now somewhat available. I mean, I can now be engaged in personal interest without being compromised by personal responsibilities so much. Yay! So I've been looking through the folders on my desktop that contain the things I wanted to read, the pictures I really liked and just stowed way for later, ideas I wanted to explore but never got to, in folders called INBOX or NEXT ACTIONS, a la Getting Things Done systems. I want to show my appreciation for my friend Fel J Cruz for showing what life can be like organised, and although I haven't quite mastered the system I think it'll be something that I can attempt during this period of relative freedom (April-July 2013-will otherwise be known as the Teenager Again Times).
Which brings me onto the theme of this entry. This time last year I was in Coventry having had my baby 6 months earlier and slowly trying to reconnect with the world and wanting to find ways to express myself as someone other than just a new mum. So I re-started blogging, opened an account with Flavors, Tumblr, Pinterest and became more active on LinkedIn. It does sound a bit overboard now but at the time I was desperate to join in the debates and be a part of society again. I make having a baby sound like a jail term, and it's not, but it's not easy when you haven been living the 21st century before either.
Thus, I've been unearthing years of my personal self from my own hard drive, my list of bookmarks as well things I've written, and getting to know myself again. It's strangely life affirming to realise that even though time has passed there are some things that remain the same about me. At times of confidence crisis I would recommend keeping and going to a folder called INSPIRATIONS. And looking through my Pinterest boards I found my board called Mood of March which seems to indicate that I was in the mood to get back into shape, as well as trying to get my stuff together. This was a plan to pin images as a visual recordings of how I felt at the time, maybe because images can sometimes say things without even trying to. And an empty board stands for the Mood of April.
So, a year has passed since my journey of self discovery and although I haven't followed through with this plan, and indeed other plans with Tumblr for example (even though I have made some efforts with this blog), it hasn't been a complete time of limbo. It seems I made the decision to start my Masters during summer and processed my application, during which many interesting things happened looking back on my entries such as working part time, making new friends, being a wife and taking it relatively easy in the summer which never happened for me since 2009. And now, since the study started it almost seems like it's nearly over. And back to April-a blank board. A funny deja vu perhaps?
I'll start of April like this and work on it.
Which brings me onto the theme of this entry. This time last year I was in Coventry having had my baby 6 months earlier and slowly trying to reconnect with the world and wanting to find ways to express myself as someone other than just a new mum. So I re-started blogging, opened an account with Flavors, Tumblr, Pinterest and became more active on LinkedIn. It does sound a bit overboard now but at the time I was desperate to join in the debates and be a part of society again. I make having a baby sound like a jail term, and it's not, but it's not easy when you haven been living the 21st century before either.
Thus, I've been unearthing years of my personal self from my own hard drive, my list of bookmarks as well things I've written, and getting to know myself again. It's strangely life affirming to realise that even though time has passed there are some things that remain the same about me. At times of confidence crisis I would recommend keeping and going to a folder called INSPIRATIONS. And looking through my Pinterest boards I found my board called Mood of March which seems to indicate that I was in the mood to get back into shape, as well as trying to get my stuff together. This was a plan to pin images as a visual recordings of how I felt at the time, maybe because images can sometimes say things without even trying to. And an empty board stands for the Mood of April.
So, a year has passed since my journey of self discovery and although I haven't followed through with this plan, and indeed other plans with Tumblr for example (even though I have made some efforts with this blog), it hasn't been a complete time of limbo. It seems I made the decision to start my Masters during summer and processed my application, during which many interesting things happened looking back on my entries such as working part time, making new friends, being a wife and taking it relatively easy in the summer which never happened for me since 2009. And now, since the study started it almost seems like it's nearly over. And back to April-a blank board. A funny deja vu perhaps?
I'll start of April like this and work on it.
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