#3 Just a 'Hi' away
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| At 2016 Global Policy Making Symposium Everyone just met each other, yet we were just 'clicked' |
Hahahaha omg why i sound so structured lmaoo. Oh well this blog better be organized ahaha so it will be easier for me to refer back and group them all.
I enjoy meeting new people.
SO MUCH.
Hahaha
I am not sure when did it start to happen but as I grow I find pleasure in meeting new people. I love to join events by myself, just because I want to make new friends with people that are as passionate as I am. Youth that are participating, taking a leap in making a change to the world.
Meeting these kind of people is an energy charger for me.
When I joined YSEALI Innovation Challenge, the first stage where we met everybody else in the challenge was during the bootcamp. I was rather anxious during the networking sessions that we have as I dont know what should I talk to them.
"Would they be interested to listen to what I'm saying"
"Won't they look at me as incompetent"
"How do I keep the conversation going without bores them"
I am fine with informal conversations with new people but in this Challenge the people that we met are official people, professionals, experts, people that are older than you and they are the players in the industry. And even during Cambodia stage we met ministers and even the US Ambassadors!
Oh boy I've got cold sweats just thinking about that even before going to Cambodia previously haha
More of that in another post, let's backtrack to the title.
Do you notice that, to make a new friend you are just a "Hi" away?
To know more people, expand your acquaintance network you just gotta say hi. That's all it takes to start on a new friendship. Simple kan?
I think it's a waste, if we don't try to get to know as many people as we can because there are 7.4BILLION people on this world and why don't you wanna take the chance to at least talk to as many people as you can?!
I want to know as many people as I can -- not to get deep into them but suffice by knowing their names, what they do and some surface info about them. That's all. So that I can say "Oh i know her! Or oh yes I've talked to him once on the train" and etc.
It's nice, to know many people. And isn't it in the Quran too? We should get to know each other?
"O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted."
(49:13)
So the next time you're waiting for a bus, or in the train. Say hi to the person next to you :)
Not only you get to know more people, but this world would be warmer with that.
But make sure to know how to handle the conversation -- to what extent should you tell about yourself. We still need to be cautious with people we just met xD
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