Caffeine high!

A bad day to have a second cup of coffee. My brain is just too active!

Thoughts and more thoughts. Have tasks to complete? Yes. I made a list of them too - the first thing I did as I came to work. Yet, my mind is wandering in a web of unanswered questions!

Global Value Chains, Trade for Development and Rural Livelihoods, Market Linkages... these are the things that stir me inside out. Feel like someone is shaking off the mundane slumber and compelling me to follow thy path. 

I see so much activity happening in India. I know it is the right time to be home, to be part of a bigger whole and to play my teeny tiny part in the change game. To think, to do, to learn. Ha!

Am I not doing the same here? Probably yes, but may be I am not the global citizen yet. My heart and mind are trapped back home. 

Well well, sitting in a metro was never my idea of an ideal job, and that made it easy to migrate to a foreign land. But I am glad, really glad to have made that move. I would never have realised my true calling had I not stepped out of my comfort zone. The last two years have confirmed and reconfirmed my passion in trade as a tool for development. The Trade Justice course has opened my mind to a whole lot of perspectives. Trade deals never crossed my mind when I thought of development. SDGs always meant good. May be glorified entities, but the course brought to light the darker shades which were otherwise not discussed in public spaces. 

I was reading about GVCs, and never wondered the climate angle to it. The carbon footprint a t-shirt creates just to make it cheaper results in been extremely expensive for the planet. I am also wondering about the returns an enterprise in the developing country would get if the product is completed in their own country. In terms of monetary as well as skill based returns. Wouldn't that make the enterprise/ a collective of enterprises more self sustaining? They have the capacities to produce a whole over mechanically producing parts of the whole.

Aaahh!! What a relief. I feel lot more stable now. Should quickly get back to my To Do list now.