Compassion

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Compassion

Today something really beautiful happened. I met with a performance coach and it was just so beautiful. It was beautiful to be heard and to be understood. It was beautiful to be listened to. It was beautiful not to have to mask. It was so beautiful to say what was on my mind and what was really bothering me and to be heard like that. It made me realise that compassion really is the most beautiful and loveliest thing in the world. Which I have known for a long time.

It was so beautiful and refreshing not to have to mask. I don’t normally mask toooo much but I do still have to mask. Why should it be that I am not good enough for the world the way I am. I realised that I was at my very strongest and most powerful when I unmask. However I do want to say that I am very lucky with colleagues who let me be who I am as I have tried to not mask for so long that I am still pretty out there anyway. My main focus with the coach has been on productivity. Obviously what I discuss is highly personal but I do know that I want to increase my productivity. It felt so great to be listened to. To be heard. I can’t even express how much it means to me. Especially in an environment where I am not being assessed as well…

Going forward I would like this blog to be for mostly water posts. Actually I have a dream where this blog is mostly only for water posts and AI. Or just only. And why not? Dreams can come true.

I have not shared my life story with people. There is a time in my life I do not talk about. Maybe I should. Maybe it shaped me and made me who I am today. But maybe it led me to water tech

And maybe it led me to water tech. And I am right here where I need to be. Here, with the love of my life. Water tech.

Water related graffiti and water illustration

So what could the dream be? Could the dream be “Susanna codes water?” Could the dream be that I code water in AI? Thank you. 🥰

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