{"id":18805,"date":"2013-11-06T15:13:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T20:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=18805"},"modified":"2013-11-06T15:13:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T20:13:40","slug":"in-which-we-talk-about-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2013\/11\/06\/in-which-we-talk-about-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"In which we talk about relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve been involved with World Vision Campus<\/a> at UofT for the last three years of university.\r\n\r\nWe started out as a tiny group of six people, scrambling to get a bake sale at Sid Smith together, into an executive team of over twenty, hosting large events with over 100 people.\r\n\r\nThe past three years have been full of growing pains, but also growing accomplishments. There are lessons I have learned here that school would have never been able to teach me, about how to think and conceptualize, how to act and execute.\r\n\r\nOver the past four months I\u2019ve been directing and putting together a huge social justice arts-based event, called Justice Works<\/em> which we hosted on November 4th<\/sup> at OISE. It was officially my last event with World Vision Campus, and also the most ambitious one yet.\r\n

\"IMG_8584\"\r\n<\/a>i became a hand model for a photo series.<\/em><\/p>\r\nTo host any event requires a certain amount of tenacity. You need a strong grip, a strong mind, and a stronger vision to hold everything together when everything starts to unfold.\r\n\r\nThere are so many things I could talk about if we were to talk about planning events.\r\nThe process is a skill set all its own.\r\n\r\nThroughout this particular event, however, one recurring theme kept coming up:\r\n

Relationships are everything.<\/p>\r\nThroughout the planning process of this event, there were many points at which I got stuck, setbacks in location, with our collaborative groups, logistical tangles\u2026the list goes on.\r\n

\"IMG_8522\"\r\nmy face at 3AM in the morning.<\/em><\/p>\r\nAt crunch time, I found the noose of time tightening.\r\nFaced with some serious logistical holes, and slightly desperate, I turned to my friends, who were not involved in the organizations, under no obligation to put extra time and effort, and they went above and beyond to help me.\r\n\r\nThis event would not have happened if it weren\u2019t for the many hands that lent themselves to me when I needed them.\r\n\r\nI needed a driver. I got a driver.\r\nI needed a photographer. I got a photographer.\r\nI worked late many nights, and there were others working with me, working later than me, quietly completing tasks so I would have less to worry about the next day.\r\nI worked long hours without eating, but there were always meals cooked for me.\r\nI received countless texts with words of encouragement.\r\n\r\nThe night of the event, more showed up in support.\r\n\r\nUltimately, it is the relationships that you\u2019ve built over the years that will pull you through the tough moments, they are the people who stay up with you till it\u2019s late, and celebrate with you when it\u2019s over.\r\n

\"photo\"\r\n<\/a>celebratory sleeping counts right?<\/em><\/p>\r\nPlanning this last event gave me a lot of perspective on how much the last four years of university have given me in my relationships. I had not realized just how rich these relationships were, and how the little experiences accumulating over the last few years created bonds that went much deeper than I had been conscious of.\r\n\r\nIt was deeply humbling to understand that my friends supported me because they believed in what I was doing.\r\n\r\nJustice Works<\/em> happened thanks to them.\r\n\r\nAmidst all the activity occurring on campus, don\u2019t forget that the people we meet are often the best part of university.\r\n\r\nThey are precious.\r\nLet\u2019s not forget to nurture and appreciate them.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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