Be passionate — LOVE — dream big — be spontaneous — celebrate — change the world or go home

Leonid Kushnir
SAP Social Sabbatical
4 min readOct 26, 2019

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This statement coming from one of the first bottles we opened at the very beginning of our stay, which summarized perfectly our experience in Zimbabwe!

Be Passionate: do you want to acquire that skill or just want to practice a little bit. Come to Africa, come to Zimbabwe and there will be many possibilities to show passion. The presents of it along with the decisions and will go the extra mile is brilliant.

LOVE: love has been spread to us all the time by people we were meeting. This nation, despite all difficulties, facing electricity outages, shares constantly the love of happiness. This makes this country unique in the way they do it. This is another good place to say thank you for all of it from us!

Dream Big: the entrepreneurial spirit is deeply grounded in everyone, being young, middle-aged or older, I have many times heard that it is better to do something than just sit at home. Any ideas make sense and the more will come the more prosperity will follow to Zimbabwe!

Be Spontaneous: we have been taught many times, that be spontaneous can relief a lot of disappointments. Did you plan something specific? But due to different circumstances, be it fuel situation or just that your driver comes 2 hours later, we learned to make necessary adjustments to our plans.

Celebrate: I was already posting about how to be a good loser and become a good winner. Whenever there is an ending of the event people use to thank for the particular event. But please understand the full picture and habit, where one from the audience is called out, the person stands up and has a thanking speech — very interesting unusual habit.

Change the world: for someone a utopia, for someone a reality. The fact is fact Zimbabwe has so much to offer to the world! Zimbabwe can teach the most developed countries. How can we stop underestimating the potential of these people and this country? Wouldn’t it be better to enable them so they can share it with us? Even a small step towards the common understanding can make a tremendous impact! as Yanko Tsvetkov underlines in his Prejudice Atlas: Prejudice is just a characteristic of intellectual laziness! So what if we would stop being lazy?

Go home? According to the statement from the bottle if you don’t want to do all the above mentioned you suppose to go home… we are going home but with a completely different reason — it’s time… Time to share with all of our peers, friends, and family the experience to enable them to share empowerment!

We are passionate — we Love — we Dream Big — we are Spontaneous — we are Celebrating — we are Changing the World and that all is thanks to UNHU; SAP Social Sabbatical; Pyxera Global!

I am who I am because of you my dear Zimbabwe!

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