Where did my "Fly Concept" came from...

Earlier in my life:

   When I was 14 to 15 years-old, I only had like 3-4 close friends that I could talk anything with and whom I would spend all my valuable time with. Ever since my last secondary school year, when I participated in a school project just because I needed to get a 10 at mathematics (*I hate math by the way*), I started to hate projects. I found them very weird and I didn't feel like I was the guy who would get involved into something like that. So I just stepped out. 

   By stepping out, I obviously found something else to do and I started playing computer games. This period of my life was so closed, so obnoxious... that it completely turned me into an introvert (*I was an introvert back then, and I still consider myself a quite introvert person, but I am open to everything*). I sat like 16 hours a day playing on my computer, eating while playing, drinking stuff, only going to the toilet about 3-4 times. That was my only movement (*apart from occasionally going out with my 3-4 friends and play something outside, which was happening but not daily*).

   In the 10th to 11th grade of my high-school I found out that one of those friends of mine went ahead and volunteered to help organizing summer camps in our town.
I liked how it sounded and I immediately joined without even asking how or what should I do, and without knowing how big this thing will turn to be for me.

  And I went there and there were more people than I have ever seen met up in a single place (about 40 people), so I was like "What do I do?". This was my first ever big, important question that I have asked myself in many years... and I didn't have a proper answer to it. I just didn't. So I went up, followed what one of my friends was doing, and that was playing music to entertain the others while they were doing activities.

   The first day was a weird one. I felt stressed about going to do this "volunteering" thing, but I kept going. So when the first summer ended I went home with the feeling of doing something right. Because I simply entertained (somehow) over 40 people, I felt I did something good for others, and of course I wanted to have that feeling again.

  A year passed and the next summer I came more ambitious, more prepared, more ready to show new people what I can do. So we gathered up, all like 10-12 volunteers (we were all friends, acquaintances, knowing each other from other friends), and so we started the first camp. This year (2016) was different. 

   And I'll describe it as my best year I have ever had. Not only I got to know a lot more people compared to last year when I met over 80 new persons, now we organized over 4 free national camps (for great performing kids at school) and 3 paid camps (for everyone else who just wanted to visit), so there were about 500 new people met that summer. And as I told you, I'm an introvert, I tend to want to spend time alone but this? What was it that made it special?

   I'll tell you what made it special. "The need of fulfillment, joy and satisfaction". I wanted to BE someone, to DO something FOR PEOPLE, without getting something back from them. My pay was not money, was not candies or food... sure they (the organization) offered us 3 meals a day and an apartment for volunteers. But my REAL payment, was the joy that I saw in other teenagers' eyes. The fact that we made them feel like home, was big. 

   Now for the "Fly Concept".

It all started when we were doing circle activities to get to know each other. It was this thing where people would get in the center of the circle (it usually started with one volunteer), and he/she had to say something about them. 

They all started like this: "Hi, my name is X, I'm Z years old and I live in Y. I like this, that and that". That was it. We didn't mention a rule about how we should tell something about ourselves, and so I realized that people were getting bored, and even I was getting bored to hear the same thing over and over again.        

   And it wasn't about the fact that I was hearing the same thing, because they were different in hobbies, names, age and stuff, but it was all about the pattern that they used. It was the same. So there was my turn to go into the center of the circle and say something about me. And I just had this feeling that I should say something that no one said or that no one would think I would say. And I went like this: "I'm Gog, and I like to fly". Everyone started laughing at first but then it was quiet and they started asking me what I was actually saying.     And I kept telling them that "I like flying. In fact, I know how to fly and I bet I can teach you or I can show you how to fly by the time you walk over in your buses and leave". So this way, I just inflicted something in their mind that reminded them every time they saw me, that "Oh, you're Gog, the guy who knows how to fly!". And I was smiling and answering "Yeah, I am. This is my dream". And this is how I made them remember my name faster, know something about me, and make them curious about what's going to happen at the end of the camp.

   So everyone thought they would learn how to fly. And I am sure they did, but they might not have known the actual meaning of this statement, of this quote of mine. So what I was saying by "Flying", I meant BEING DIFFERENT. You see, when you're flying, your feet are off the ground. You do not touch the ground when you fly so you basically are doing something that the other 7,000 000 000+ people are not doing (I know there're over 7 billion but I assume that the others are flying by plane, or "floating" by boat). I realized that being different is the way to go, because we feel the need to be listened, to be appreciated, to be US, IN OUR OWN WAY. This was my way of showing people how to be themselves.

So why don't you find your way?