This week I put forward 7 applicants for 4 great positions with a wonderful organisation here. 4 of the women have been considered and we're waiting to hear if they've been chosen for the positions available. The suspense is kind of uncomfortable. I tell myself to not get my hopes up about this, but to just accept whatever happens. We're also waiting to see if people will buy tickets for a classical concert we've just advertised which is happening at the beginning of May to help raise funds for our friends, the Prados. Their daughter, a close friend of Ariela's, died of malaria last year and they had to borrow money to fly their daughter home to the Philippines for her burial. We're hoping to finish off paying the outstanding balance in one evening of music, but this again depends on whether people rally for the event. I feel the vulnerability of putting together an event that may not be the success we want it to be...we could just sit and do nothing because the fear of failure is too great a monster to face..or we can try and succeed and accept either fate, knowing that we have lived more by at least trying. I have just been gathering testimonies from the pilots here about how they managed to get into flying with MAF....many of their stories include them having to wait against the odds, giving their all financially to follow their dreams. I'm sure not one would have regretted what it cost them now that the gamble has paid off and they're doing what they love. In fact, aren't all of the things we wait and strive for the most, the things most precious to us? I'm pretty sure that the hardest and risky things we've ever undertaken or been forced to go through, have always turned out to be the most valuable experiences of our lives.
Monday, 17 March 2014
Uncomfortable waiting....
This week I put forward 7 applicants for 4 great positions with a wonderful organisation here. 4 of the women have been considered and we're waiting to hear if they've been chosen for the positions available. The suspense is kind of uncomfortable. I tell myself to not get my hopes up about this, but to just accept whatever happens. We're also waiting to see if people will buy tickets for a classical concert we've just advertised which is happening at the beginning of May to help raise funds for our friends, the Prados. Their daughter, a close friend of Ariela's, died of malaria last year and they had to borrow money to fly their daughter home to the Philippines for her burial. We're hoping to finish off paying the outstanding balance in one evening of music, but this again depends on whether people rally for the event. I feel the vulnerability of putting together an event that may not be the success we want it to be...we could just sit and do nothing because the fear of failure is too great a monster to face..or we can try and succeed and accept either fate, knowing that we have lived more by at least trying. I have just been gathering testimonies from the pilots here about how they managed to get into flying with MAF....many of their stories include them having to wait against the odds, giving their all financially to follow their dreams. I'm sure not one would have regretted what it cost them now that the gamble has paid off and they're doing what they love. In fact, aren't all of the things we wait and strive for the most, the things most precious to us? I'm pretty sure that the hardest and risky things we've ever undertaken or been forced to go through, have always turned out to be the most valuable experiences of our lives.
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Hope it will owrk out as you have planned. and yes sometimes one need to take risk and it does pay off. Thanks for sharing the blog,
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