Personal side of mission life: three people on the edge in the middle of bush in West Africa

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

At your own risk

In my working environment everything it's at your own risk. And this means that everybody else can wash his hands on your situation and keep his job safe.
Flexibility, understanding, cooperation, sound too risky. And in this way the system maintain itself and feed incompetence, preserving the status quo and just pissing off people with innovative ideas, motivation, and enthusiasm.
Doing things at my own risk is becoming my favorite motto. At least I can do what I feel I have to do, once I discharge the system from any responsibility. Infact, the system does not care if what we do it's right or wrong; the important is that we are not endangering the system in itself. That's exactly why it's at YOUR OWN RISK (and not at the system risk). So a development- humanitarian structure, supposed to step on high ideals internally is nothing more than a continuous passing the hot potato to somebody else. And so nothing is done and everything remains as it is.
I took a lot of risks in many of my actions professionally and personally and I don't regret them.
I think I'll also take the risk to step out of this system.

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