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So… here I am. Took me a whole to get to know you a little better, by means of your existential memoirs. I’m always looking for context, for a story, a little history, a vision of the whole. Sharing this kind of stuff allows me to ‘feel your I-space’, let’s say. So I guess it’s time to return the favour and lay the foundations on which the ‘we-space’ can be woven.
For a short intro, check out my blog here at Zaadz. As you’ll read there, I’m from the Netherlands and am currently finishing my international business studies. Right now, I’m living in Hamburg, Germany for five months. I’m doing an internship with a Japanese optical company (camera’s, endoscopes, etc.), where I’m evaluating a European reorganization strategy from the Integral perspective (they’re working with this here at European headquarters).
In the evenings, I’m writing my graduate thesis, tentatively titled “Creativity and Constraint: a Process-based Perspective on the Duality of Action and Structure”, which is really a sociological topic much more than it is a business one. But who cares. I don’t, and thank God neither does my thesis coordinator…. so far.
In addition to my thesis and my internship, there’s a third component to my life as is it right now: practice. I simply don’t know anyone here in Hamburg, I don’t have internet access in my apartment and there’s not a lot to do in the evenings and weekends except work on my thesis, read, stare at the walls and meditate. This is very different from the student’s life I used to live until recently, which was all about getting up late, bullying myself into doing the necessary, working on all kinds of fun projects (extra-curricular, of course) and spending time with friends and girlfriend. None of that now.
Still, I’m enjoying my time here, because the circumstances are such, that I cannot not grow, practice, learn, live. And therefore I feel very integrated and grateful. And blogging may be one of the ways in which I can share and express. That’s why I’m here really, to learn from the master and design this aspect of my own practice as consciously as possible ;-)
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