I found the girl on Facebook by accident who I taught as a tutor when I was a university student a couple of days ago. She was at second grade of high school and I was a junior student in university. In my memory, she was a high school student who was pure, immature, and a kid, however, the girl I found on Facebook was an adult who posted sometimes in English and mentioned about business in Japan. This was a huge surprise to me because I never imagined that she grew up like this. From my point of view, she was herself who was a high school student. It seems she is 4 years younger than me given her post saying, “This is the last time of our seminar group gathering.”
It occurred to me that the gap of age did not matter, but the boundary that distinguished any phases in our society did matter to the way of thinking. This is similar to the notion that the position encourages people to grow up. High school and university are really different each other. So do university and company. As a matter of facts, she is now kind of familiar with what companies are due to internship program which makes her closer to my phase, a person working at a company. Anway, I am thinking that I need to focus on the position or phase that I am in now rather the length of time that I have spent. The position or phase that lets me have a different scope or view will be kept important to grow myself up, to change my world, and to keep to enjoy my life.
Another thing is that a person grows. I have been the youngest person for more or less ten years because I entered to the first course, which did not have any senior members, and I did not communicate with younger members in the lab in my university life. In first two companies, I was the youngest person and never met new younger guys. Now that I am not the youngest person with respect to the actual age and my experience on marketing research, I have stepped up to the next phase that requires me to oversee younger individuals or a team so that they can grow up. To educate and make people grow up will be tough because I think the view towards someone tends to be fixed based on the impression that we have when we first met each other. This surprising experience that I found the girl again reminds me that a person grows, we need to throw away the fixed view, and we should see the potential growth that a person may have.
I will make myself grow too.
