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LexArrow - it’s in your mind…
"life is a game - you just have to know the rules"
The last week has been pretty intense an they reminded me where I live…Romania. So here it goes… In the first semester I failed an exam in Commercial Law because…(let me think for an excuse)…I don’t like learning things by heart so I didn’t study enough. Anyway, I had to give the exam again on June 30. Two months ago I found out about an internship opportunity at NATO. The deadline for the application was June 29 but because of school, work and other things, I kept delaying it. On top of that I had an unexpected problem occurred because I should have been moving from a campus to another for the summer, but I forgot ASE(ro) (Academy of Economic Studies – Bucharest, Romania) can be surprising and they left around 1000 working students with no place to stay for the summer. In short, I had a nasty exam to give, I had to come up with the best application ever in order to win the internship and I had to find a place to stay, all in 1 week.
I came home to Brasov to study, then I went back to Bucharest, called anyone I knew so I can rent something. I also waited for 3 days for ASE to resolve the problem (God I hate state owned services in Romania!!!!). In the end, on the 27th, late in the evening I get a call from a friend that I can stay on his place in the campus (he is in the last year and he had priority to receive one) because he is renting a house. On the night between 28th and 29th I wrote my NATO application and I really gave my best. There is no way I could have done it better. On the 29th I spent the whole day carrying stuff from the old campus to the new one. On the 30th at 07.30 hrs I gave the exam and I took a far better grade than I expected.
I have these kinds of periods at least 2 times per year and I always get the same conclusions out. It doesn’t really matter if you think you’re going to fail as long as you give your best to do something and solve things. Have you ever noticed how much time we spend on stressing ourselves and how little we DO something about it? I hate it when people tell me it’s gonna’ be OK. How do they know? I don’t think any relative of Nostradamus is still living. On the other hand you need someone to support you morally, friends, family, it doesn’t matter as long as they care about you, because their encouragements are really said from the heart.
About the NATO application, I’m really proud of it; it made me learn a lot of things about me. In September when they will give the results, even if they won’t choose me, I won’t be sorry because I did my best 
. Maybe you have wondered why the motto “It’s in your mind…” , well because there’s the place where you create your own complexes and ultimately, the place you will take them down yourself.
In the end there will always be roses at the end of the road if you work smartly and never give up.
3 Responses to “All roses in the end”
July 7th, 2007 at 05:47
so do you hate me when I’m telling you “everything is gonna be allright”, even if after a few days you also realise I was right, when see the roses at the end of the road?
a wink of pink!
July 7th, 2007 at 06:14
nope,you’re the exception that confirms the rule
September 18th, 2007 at 11:40
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