As you might now, TIME magazine chose US to be the TIME person of the year. The editor says: “In 2006, the World Wide Web became a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter.”
You can read the full story here.
Surprising enough for me, even though I always feel I am not posting to a satisfactory level, I think that such attention from TIME will surely be a changing agent for me and others who did not yet experience being there.
So Congratulation to all of US !!!
Tarek
Crashdummie reply to my previous post initiated a very interesting discussion between us that I would like to share it with all of you, reserving all the copyrights to Crashy for sure:-)
Crashdummie
Hmm that’s a tricky one. For me, trust and respect is the foundation for all relationships (partners, work, family, friends etc) – I mean if you don’t have that, what’s left. Obviously, at your old job they lacked respect for you, and I you did the only right thing – to leave!
If a loved one hurts you, I would find a way to heal and forgive them, but if they ever break my trust, I’d maybe forgive them , simply so that I can move forward, but I’d never forget… the wounds may heal, but the scar will always be there.
Ryc: I’m a quote freak and that’s why I always try to find an appropriate one for my posts 
Tarek
That’s unbelievable Crashy, I used to say the same words:” I will forgive but not Forget” to people who really hurt me personally and / or professionally. I sometimes suspect that we can even FORGIVE as we are at the end HUMANS!!!
Crashdummie
“Too err is human – to forgive divine”
Isn’t what you are saying a contradiction – how can you forget something you haven’t forgotten. Cuz if you forget, you won’t feel the pain, thus you’d automatically forgive. But I get your point – God has given us tools which we should use wisely. And forgivness is one of them. Cuz after all, only God has the right to judge ppl right? We ourself must heal and not cuz the other person pain by not forgiving them if they truly are regretful, but He also understands that we want to protect us from pain by not trusting them and letting the same mistake happen once again – ergo, we should forgive, but necessarily not forget…
That’s what I think – what abt you?
Tarek
Make sense, the only point I still see here is that we are humans so we don’t forgive easily people who do bad to us but we may forget them if we are so involved in our life but when we suddenly remember them, we will feel the same pain and anger. So the question here is who is first: forgive or forget?
What do you think?
Tarek
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Have you ever seen signals that switched on the light in your head to change?
It’s really strange but it’s happening all the time. You hear accidentally a conversation that you are not supposed to, or someone knows you very well meets with people who also know you and both don’t know that you know both THEN they start to talk about you !!!!
So what exactly can be changed and what can not?
I remember in my first job in the field of pharmaceutical sales back in 1994, I was talking to the office secretary and after finishing I don’t know why I did not close and by mistake she did not AND she started to talk to the office manager and they talked very bad about me and I was listening !!!!! What would you do then? For me I put my resignation the first thing in the morning and this office manager kept telling my why, why, I am planning a good job pathway for you and bla bla bla. Eventhough I had to wait for acouple of months to get another job, Do you think it was right? I think if this was repeated 100 times I would do the same thing OR you can say I am still doing it until today.
But what if these bad words were from a close person to you, would you cut your relationship with him / her immediately or what?
Yes it’s difficult, this is the nature of interpersonal relationships and that’s why it’s so difficult to change the behaviors of people even if they admit that what they are doing is wrong.
Take care for now,
Tarek
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Is it natural that any achievement will be followed by changes?
For me, a week after being awarded the MBA last July, I took a new responsibility in a newly formed company as an acting GM plus my other private business, so I am a “two hats” person as my colleagues like to say. Was thas a right and wise direction?
I noticed that I tend to overload myself as if the MBA increased my BANDWIDTH if this term is applicable here J
I also think that most of class mates have the same feeling: they either started already new jobs or were asked to take more responsibilities at their workplaces or at least actively looking for new job.
So can we say that getting the MBA is a change agent? Can we generalize that to any other personal and / or professional achievement?
I really want to know your opinion on that.
Tarek
