Some things I learned about myself this last week.

I rarely blog about positive experiences, but I need to do it today. Most of what I have to talk about lately is people. I work with humans, I love interacting with them, and, as a socialite and an aspiring novelist, my whole life has a reason to be because of people. However, from time to time, I allow myself to detach from them and discover what is my identity apart from people. International Week at my volunteer association gave me that opportunity. Although I was surrounded by people all the time, manual tasks like painting a tall cardboard Big Ben gave me some time to think. The events inside and outside international week that also happened this week allowed me to have a mirror in front of me all the time -- it had been years since the last time I tried to analyze myself. And boy, have I changed over time.
These are things I found out about myself:

-I can still work under somebody's lead. I thought I was a rebel, but it turns out I can still admire someone enough to follow him. All I need is leader that cares about his collaborators and that is not afraid of being a visionary. Thanks James for the lesson.
-I'm definitely not mainstream. I knew I was unconventional in many of my ways, but lately I see that I keep doing almost everything in a very sui generis manner. This excites me because I always wanted to be effortlessly eccentric, but it surely worries me because I don't think there's going back.
-I can still be so touched and moved by somebody's story that I can keep crying inside of me for some time after the telling is over. I mean, I kept asking myself what I had done to deserve earning somebody's trust. When I think about it, I still don't understand it, but I'm very grateful that somebody saw a trustworthy person in me.
-I need a purpose to keep moving on. I need to be doing something. I have a desperate need of transcending.
- I haven't quite learned my limits. Sometimes I just live feeling immortal, and there's when the chaos start. Feeling in the top of the world also means that if you lose your balance, it is a very long way to the bottom.

I'm glad I can still work in my humanity. What is to change in the following years? I just can't wait to see my evolution.