“After leaving from a meeting with Ivan (Patzaichin), you always had more strength,” said a lady on TV about the one who was several times world champion at the Olympic Games.
I was impressed by this statement, as I was impressed by all the posts and announcements on social media. I have seldom encountered situations in which everyone said such beautiful words about a human. I heard nice words about him when he was alive, although I didn’t get a chance to meet him.
But what that lady said reminded me of an exercise we were doing in Delphi. One of our projects at Interact is Journey to Your Inner Self. It takes place over a few days and we go with the participants to Delphi, in Greece, where it was the Oracle that predicted the future.
At Delphi, there is an amphitheater where we asked those we went with to imagine that they were at the end of their lives. They are in the center, and the amphitheater is full of people who knew them. What would they want those people to say about them? What did they do well and what would they leave behind?
For some of them it was an emotional moment and a turning point.
We don’t stop too often from our feverish rhythm to reflect, to analyze ourselves. Sometimes we find out about the departure of a special person and then we stop, we think about them, about us, we are sad, then we start from the beginning with living in ‘our sphere’s narrowness and luck rules over us’.
But I wonder how many of us will say, ‘After meeting this person, you had more strength’?
