Editorial
Editorial nº 83
Leather Technology Magazine
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Editorial
Same as the end of every year leads us to carry out
balances, when a year starts, in general, we feel renewed.
We have before us a "new" and promising
time to live. We make plans, which, if met, allow us
to realize our dreams.
Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, gave an emotional
speech in 2005 at the graduation ceremony at Stanford
University.
One of the passages that shock me most is the one
that relates to the finite the time we have to live, to
do and find what we love, is.
He told graduating students: "Your time is limited,
so do not waste it living someone else's life. Do not
be trapped by dogmas - which would be living with
the results of other people's thoughts -Do not let the
noise of other people opinions drown your own inner
voice; and most important, have the courage to follow
your heart and intuition as they somehow know
what they want you to become. Everything else is secondary."
The current members of AAQTIC Commission
Board and those who integrated it before we do, give
some of our private time to keep our Association
alive, to communicate technological advances and
new developments in the leather industry, to transmit
to new generations the experiences and knowledge
we accumulated for many years.
This year, we intend to organize a Conference
whose main subject will be the relationship between
the Leather Industry and Environmental care.
As we know these are difficult times to get business
sponsors, we will grant privilege to the academic
level of the guest speakers and presentations‘ contents, over the social organization of the event.
Our idea is to have an excellent Conference with
an austere organization, affordable to everyone who
wants to attend.
I invite all AAQTIC associates to collaborate in the
organization of the conference, to spread this news
and participate in all the activities we will organize
this year.
Do not let us be defeated by discouragement or
lack of enthusiasm, we have a full year ahead of us
to reach our goals.
Lic. Patricia Casey - Presidente
Letter from the editor
I was going through and amending the editorial for
this magazine, which subject were the initiatives promoted
world wide by the Global Leather Coordinating
Committee, when an unexpected news shocked
me, same as it did to many of my fellow citizens: for
the first time in history not a European Pope but a
South American one, had been elected. To astonish
us even more; The Pope is Argentine.
Cardinal Bergoglio, who until recently was Primate
of the Argentine Catholic Church, had been designated
by his colleagues to be Pedro’s successor.
Apart from the creed our relatives, friends, colleagues,
profess (or not) we all felt very happy and a
fresh and renewing breeze surrounded us, same as it
happens when you wake up in the morning after a
bad sleeping night because of the problems and concerns
in our thoughts but we open the window and
feel fresh air in our face and see the sun rising once
again as a promise of Nature that nothing is dark and
disturbing for ever.
“You looked for a Pope at the end of the world” said Bergoglio and I felt that words express the feeling
of many Argentines, not as a reference to our unquestionable
geographical location, because, even
though Argentina has been and is a birthplace of intellectuals,
scientists, business and sport men, outstanding
around the world, sometimes, ups and downs
of our daily history, make us feel anonymous, invisible,
far away from everything.
By then, I reiterated by belief that “nothing happens
by chance” and may be Argentines
were in need of a strong shake to recover the confidence
in ourselves and on what we are able to do.
We needed to go out of the world anonymity, not
because of discouraging or conflictive news but because
one of our fellow citizens talks to all of us on
Earth, about being humble, jointly involved and really
worried for those who have less, helping them
to recover their dignity, succeeding as human beings
by means of the culture of work and not to quarrel
among brothers but to walk together, accepting each
other with our differences and to care for the planet
and our environment thus making it a better place to
live in.
I fervently wish this to happen and that what our
National Anthem states is accomplished:
To the great Argentine people, blessings !
We deserve it.
Lic. Patricia Casey - Presidente |