Precarious Life

Being a business major was the reason I decided to help out at Marin Link. I was curious of learning what an organization like Marin Link did and what a green business really was. I have heard about people speak of sustainable business and how sustainable practices were beneficial but I was never a believer of these statements. In the contrary I dismissed the statements firmly believing the traditional practices of business should continue to be instituted and applied, if something worked why try to change it. Something unexpected happen while working at Marin Link, I began to see things in a different perspective and began to think differently about everything I once knew, especially about business.
A quote the stuck out to me was “perhaps mourning has to do with agreeing to undergo a transformation (perhaps one should say submitting to a transformation) the full result of which one cannot know in advance…one can try to chose it, but it may be that this experience of transformation deconstitutes choice at some level (21). My mindset when deciding to help out at Marin Link was to learn more about sustainable business and seeing whether or not I would choose to implement these practices in the near future. Although I was not in mourning my experience at Marin Link lead me to a type of transformation of who I was as a person because not only did I get to help with the business forum but with Project Homeless Connect and the Northgate Promenade Celebration which helped me learn new things about myself. What I find true about the quote is when it speaks of undergoing a transformation and not knowing the result in advance and not having total control of the outcome. I believe every experience one has causes some type of transformation for the person although the person may not know what that transformation may be. I have really began to question everything about myself and the future plans I once had because this class and Marin Link has really caused me to begin questioning things while involving myself in a more in depth thinking about things. My mind was opened to learn new things and to respect the ideas of others and I believe this is what lead to my transformation as a person because I was opened to the idea of changing my views. A transformation is good in all types of situations because one changes as a person and begins to see things differently in life.