love and loss

Happily enough, many of my great friends here have recently found some luck in the love category. MBAs, without intense pressures of classes, do have souls, if you can believe it. On a sunny yesterday afternoon my pals Sandra and Phil and I decided to go get massages. The people here never cease to amaze me, how they can deal with so much flux and turmoil in life and somehow maintain a steady grasp on the goal. A stark change from living amongst the creatives in Boulder, when a slight breeze can just make someone topple over on the wrong day.

Being an MBA also requires (although they will never tell you this in the F(*&'n application process) an almost uncanny ability to let go of things, sometimes in a disturbing way. Most MBAs are transient, almost overly flexible, and we are able to move across the world for the perfect job, extract from friends and family practically overnight, and transform our lives very quickly. In many ways, this is what makes one successful in business. With this skill do we sacrifice the deep, time-building relationships that others might have?

There is a statistcally significant break-up pattern here in school, and it comes in waves according to school holidays; the first being at thanksgiving and the last around spring break. I suppose it all has to do with priorities, but to outsiders it is troubling; to be successful at business, do you have to sacrifice everything else? I hope not. Or maybe you do, just for now, and you can shift everything around later in life. But, without practice, it is difficult to improve at anything, right?