Now I see taxis everywhere

𝕐ou know when you cut your hair and now everyone you see has short hair, or when you buy a new piece of clothing and now everyone in the streets is wearing the same thing?

I used to see g-classes everywhere after deciding they’re my favorite type of car because they’re not very popular. They’re still not popular but they were the first thing my eyes would lay at if I saw one. Now all I see is taxis. No, I don’t want to buy a taxi. I don’t even want to use one when I’m in Albania. But it was that one project that made me aware of their all around presence, and it was that specific amount of time working on that project, that got me attached to said item.

The project we did wasn’t anything big or special. After all it wasn’t even the group’s idea. But it was its creation process that made it special. So it is not about the result, but about the experience. Maybe the fact that I would be presenting in front of some of my favorite teachers may count as the special thing. Or the fact that I was trusted to present it in the first place, which is a thing I am very thankful of.  Yet, I learned a few very important lessons during these days. I learned to trust in group work. I’m a late bloomer in that direction. I believe it was the fact that all of my team were good students and most importantly great individuals you could easily communicate with, and I learned to let do. I am very possessive of my work, (not in a bad way I swear) because of the curse of being a perfectionist up to some point. But this time deciding to let everyone do their thing without interfering was something that came naturally to me. So I am thankful of a great presentation partner with killer presenting skills and a supportive team who were just as anxious as us to get a decent presentation as well.

The only thing I might’ve been a bit sad about, was the change of the name of the DictioTaxi, wishing it remained the same, but I am sure there’s a good reason behind. In a conference context, the good amount of work did pay off, so now I only hope that students in the following years make it possible for the work to be out there in the world.

Now even though my defensive mechanism wouldn’t let me express my excitement in the day of the thing, I genuinely was exhilarated, and there were a lot of sparks, so I am thankful of that too.

And as always, thanks for reading.

Here are some pictures I wish I was cropped out of xp

This is probably the last blog post, so no matter the sentiment, sorrowful or liberated, it will be nice having a thing as such to look back when nostalgia hits.