Priorities

As an intern in a major company, you more often than not find some assignments and projects which will be quantified at the end of your internship period by your supervisor. These will be the basis to measure how good is your working performance; how far you are motivated to get into the main business; how eager do you want to learn and absorb new knowledge. However, things like this won't necessarily apply to all interns in the world today, especially in difficult time like now due to finance crisis whereby the stack of work orders in the company keeps tumbling down and that means it is slightly harder to get a task. When this happened, I therefore killed the time by sort of making myself unnecessarily occupied by doing some on-line research about my company's products. When I felt sick after reading it for some boring hours, I simply took a break and checked into my mail inbox whether there were mails coming in. Mind you, these mails were also sent by some of my friends who were also sort of employed in their companies, but in the same time jobless as well. In this forum of unlikely dedicated interns, We actually talked about bunch of interesting craps such as our daily activities, watches, games, computers, cell phones, entertainment, schwein flu, weather, food, tourism and even the clog on water closet; we basically discussed about everything. But, I did find something interesting in the forum last week and it was basically about Euro trip. Some of my friends decided to get visit several countries in European continent after they finish their internship program and I was invited too, be it a distinctive proof that I am not an anti-social bloke at all. However, after they explained about their plans, I am afraid that I have been excessively reluctant by turning them down and refusing to go with them. There are of course reasons which some might regard them as complete rubbish, but in my opinion, it has something to do with what people called as priority.

Naturally, a normal human being will choose the best decision which wins him/herself fully, although compromises have always been something unavoidable in every argument. These compromises are then to be scaled personally whether they would suit your priorities and they are tolerable enough, I would obviously push myself to do the impossible things as long as they are still within my reach and sensible considerations. Even if I refuse to do something, there are always good reasons for me not to get into it any deeper and they are mostly not open for a further discussion. I am obviously more than happy to travel with them because I have always pointed out that it doesn't matter what you are doing, what does matter is who you are doing something with. But in this case, a clear description to this extravagant trip is I will drain my bank account by visiting many countries in a fortnight and yet spending only one day in each country on the average with a massive discomfort because mostly we will sleep on the train which I unfortunately can't. Not pretending of being such a ridiculously demanding prince who wants to sleep on a king size spring bed with fluffy goose pillow, but I simply just couldn't work out a reason of why I would spend my money for a great inconvenience and it doesn't worth my salt at all. To emphasize how serious I am about my opinion, I would bravely report that all these arguments are not just a pile of irrational thoughts because I had experienced what they are about to be doing. I have been on a night train which took about 8 hours to reach its destination and I have been on a night bus which took about the same time as well. And the trip in the train was my God dreadful! The bus was even worst and turned out to be a catastrophic disaster; I knew that I didn't sleep at all because I still could feel where the bus was actually directing at. It is presumably almost impossible to sleep in a train and completely impossible to sleep in a bus and that is the end of it.

"Priorities are merely values with no arguable beliefs."

Furthermore, travelling around Europe has never been a very much intention of mine because I figure that it would be wiser to just do a small trip around Germany or even at the outrageous bombshell, I would only go to one or two very worth to be visited countries, then save the rest for a much better use. I had actually outlined this to some of my friends, but some also think that I behaved like a poor people. Come on and get real, my friend..! I feel rich if I could for instance pay the rent of my room by myself or simply keep it until I need it to fund my thesis project. The difference between my point of view with my friend's was very plain to see, although our initial plan was the same, which was doing our internship program and that has been the end of our similarity. Euro trip became their next priority as they walked out the company they had been working at for the last time; meanwhile I don't have that sort of thought. One might clearly differentiate which thing is a really important thing to do and priorities are just a subjective topic to be addressed, but I am quite sure that people will not care very much on other's ideas or opinions as they had set up their values, in this case of course the priorities. The rest thing you can do is just try to be supportive and wish them that everything will turn out well.

In conclusion, priorities are merely values with no arguable beliefs, they are goals with strong determination and nothing else will matter as a particular purpose has been set. The pursue to achieve our goals will not necessarily make our self look obsessive and unforgiving, however it is presumably right to say that priorities will prove someone’s consistency and as long as supports from our dearest environment exist, we will make it through with a proper pride to ourselves.