with calm you can….even beat burocracy June 14, 2007

very important…i bated up the Romanian bureaucracy…with a lot of patience…and calm…because all those clerks seemed as if they were close to menopause…screaming around without any reason…but i know a strategy;)…it always works…if you speak calm, smile to them, and talk with low volume…they will shut up to hear your low voice…relax because they see you are not in a hurry to have all those papers “now” like everybody wants them…and then they relax and smile…you give them a happy moment and you get your stuff and no one is fighting no one…this is the problem in this country…everybody says “i want it now”…well we have to learn to be calm, plan things, respect people, and say thank you to them, even if “it is their job”…and then we will be a happy nation…and we won’t be angry that the Government wants to make the retirement age 65 …because …the most important thing…we will live longer;)

those ladies told me i was the only person that was not in a hurry…i even told them that i could come and get the papers tomorrow…they were so surprised…that they help me out with more interest then for any other client…

and then…i had to send all the documents by post…so i went to the post office…and staied in the cue…and there was this guy behind me…that seemed in a hurry…and couldn’t sit still…checking his watch…and i was getting annoyed so i told him that he could get in front of me if he is in a hurry…cause i can wait (it would have meant 10 minutes more but no negative energy behind my back, right?:)…and he was surprised that “someone could say something like that”…and he calmed down…i guess he was…”in a hurry to nowhere interesting”…as all the people in this country…

i guess Bucharest people are the one that have the record in this…probably most of those ones from the “rat race”…have sad to themselves ..”stop thinking and start running…now!! and you will manage to catch up with Prigoana and Iri…”…so wrong…inner peace is the key…not running and swearing at all those that are not running…especially at the underground:)…there is a train in 5 more minutes…anyways you won’t get to your target in time…it is Bucharest…it was built for people to be late…Transportation ministry should send some young people to learn “on the job” what trains mean…from Deutsche Bahn…