Tomek .....
..... was the only human ever to share my office when I was a CEO of a 24 hour operating non-stop Charity. This was an office which was busy as a meeting room too. Tomek came as a young volunteer and ended up converting me into a cyber human.
My first email/web-site and all things digital ..........
........... he also saved me from a life of dull gray boxes using dull gray operating systems ........ and he introduced me to the new life found in - and out of Apple Macs - iLife indeed!!
I always treat every human with esteem and value.
More so the young humans.
I guess that Tomek received the same then.
Talking level.
Never talking down.
Never talking up.
I passed a bus stop today outside a boys school.
I saw a group of noisey fun loving boys mesing around together.
Also - at the other end of the bus stop was a young boy about 12.
He was on his own.
He was black.
His face expressionless.
His head hung a bit low.
I passed him an went out to him emotionally.
It was a Vicky Pollard moment.
Thinking about the person beyond the first impression.
As I passed him I prayed for him ..........
Tomek was in my office and he created the Charity web-site and my first pip.com www.
His English language was - err - improving!
His Polish, unlike mine, was perfect.
All I can say is ............................."yesh tesh sponyowee'
Which means:: .......................................................... 'you are a beautiful human person'.
He was the junior then - I was the junior today as I sat in his office in central London - and I liked that feeling.
Big responsible job as an IT Director.
Talented - extreme.
A Degree in all this stuff ......... different as I seem to cock up the most simple IT things.
What a great human becoming ..............
I am trying to probe feelings and thoughts which I cannot yet plumb ........
I will drink deep at that well in the next hours/days ........
I can learn from that and the rest of the day ...........
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