A quote for thoughts

There's one quote from Grey's and one that makes me think and feel alive today...

MEREDITH: "Human beings need a lot of things to feel alive."
GEORGE: "Family."
CRISTINA: "Love."
IZZIE: "Sex."
DEREK: "But we only need one thing"
RICHARD: "To actually be alive."
CRISTINA: "We need a beating heart."
ADDISON: "When our heart is threatened"
ALEX: "We respond in one of two ways."
GEORGE: "We either run or-"
IZZIE: "We attack."

RICHARD: "There's a scientific term for this."
ALEX: "Fight..."
ADDISON: "...or flight."
MIRANDA: "It's instinct."
MEREDITH: "We can't control it."
IZZIE: "Or can we?"


As I get more and more involved with the alumni and the mentoring project, working with over 150 people under my care, school and friends. I realised that a lot of people around me tend to 'Flight' instead of Fight when a challenging situtation arises, a lot of people chose the easy way out. They justify their reasons for taking flight as " Its a small matter ", " I chose to not fight what people think of me, I dont care", "If that is what they think, its fine. They have their opinions".

Here's what I think, logically, if a situtation doesnt work in your favor, take flight, it is a basic human instinct. But in life, it is about challenging the status quo, pushing yourself to do just a little bit more, showing the rest of the world that they were wrong to stereotype you and believe in yourself.

This might be one of the reasons why I enjoy my time with AIESEC, everyone in AIESEC pushes themselves just a little more, go just a little further to see where life leads and brings you.

So... my thoughts for today, be driven, challenge and be challenged. Go out there and change the world.