whats your cause to champion?

so i could've said that i was fooled into the training last weekend
i went there with the mindset that it was all about advertising
that they will teach us how to write strategic briefts, creative works, how to handle people that you directly work with & how to all come together to manage the brand to its ultimate potential
then on the first day
that was all thrown out of the window
we were asked to explore ourselves

i know right? what has this got to do with anything?

but it somehow was like this small life lesson that they were teaching us

they asked us to tap into all these things that we were pushing away for the longest time
and im the biggest cynic
"you can't make people want to resolve things that they dont/you can't force it/how do you know that this will be the right move for an individual/dont hold us all under the same school of thought"
but i thought
"hey, ive given up my weekend, im here, might as well try it and give 100%"
so i did

so i put doubt and cynicsm aside and tried it out and i managed to feel alot of things that i had boxed away and forgot about
i did deal with them and i did share them
which was rather foreign to me really...sharing my ideas, hopes and fears with a group of strangers? wtf right? but it felt really good in the end because:

1. i saw how all these unresolved issues i had had affected my life subconsciously
2. i understood them
3. i dealt with them
4. i realised that everyone feels as vulnerable and weak as i do at one point or another
5. that everyone has issues
6. that you should take ownership over everything that happens to you

i know this post is very wishy washy and very new age but honestly, once you push all the cynicism aside and actually try it, it does work. its very empowering and brought alot of clarity to what i saw as rather fuzzy and grey.

its a challenge to what you have already perceived as the norm and how to work. and if you want to stay safe, then keep that way. but once you break everything down eg. your judgment, your insecurities and your fears then you can actually feel a little lighter & a whole lot of possibilities will come your way.

baby steps

xL