Action is the key
Action is the key
I am leaving and arriving. I stay in the homes of people I don’t know and whom I will never see again. Today I was a facilitator in a very unpleasant case. One girl is an exchange student from Australia who, after three months in Argentina, hasn’t learned Spanish, and the other is her host sister.
Do you look at people’s actions while listening to what they say? Or do you look at what people do after they speak?
While I was talking with them, one of them decided the conversation was over and went into another room. I didn’t say a word, but I understood what she meant. Her house - her rules. She is the focus of that house; she is that house. Only because of her did the girl from Australia get this place, and because she started becoming friends with her enemies, that girl has to leave right now. I understood everything she didn’t say.
I don’t know who came up with the idea that communication is the key. In many situations, communication is not a way out but an endless vicious circle. In some situations, actions are the key. But to get to action, you have to go through all these circles of communication until a person finally behaves the way they wanted to all along, and says everything through that.
I don’t know what to tell the girl from Australia - that life will teach her? That at some point she will regret it? That her life will be much harder than that of this girl from Australia anyway? I told her that life goes on, that she shouldn’t fixate on this situation. Tomorrow she will move, and it will be a new day.