What’s up by Miluska Ojeda

From time to time, I have realized how often I take for granted how people should work or interact with each other, maybe because of the people and environments I have encountered, and these aspects mixed with my own attitude have shaped my reality, my culture.

The first time I realized it, about 4 years ago, I felt very weird and rather out of place, as I very often do, but that time I really could not understand why people showed such different behaviour. Even when I understood the reason, their way of doing/thinking seemed so illogical to me. Life teaches us a lot and I have learned to pay particular attention to behaviours in different environments, but I have also learned not to change everything: the attitude of treating people as persons is one of those. In some environments I didn’t like the way some people treated others, and that is because a group of people working together is not always a real Team. Sometimes companies treat employees like things or coworkers treat others like enemies, often I saw competition and judgment instead of real cooperation towards the same goal or purpose.

In life I question almost everything, but one of the few sure things I know is that being aware of our differences can enable us to be open-minded, try and learn something new…and yes, question our assumptions or even test them!

For this reason, it is interesting and challenging to interact with different contexts, people and companies; it can teach us to adapt, test ourselves and be more aware of what part of ourselves we do not want to change

This article was first published in our Cocooners N° 5