Fighting!

Conflicts might be supporting the team's ability to make the right decisions for some time. As soon as conflicts become personal though and affect everybody's mood the whole project can be at risk. That is what we all found out within the first week we had spent living together as a team.

We faced serious problems trying to find compromises for all our controversial beliefs. Nobody wanted to step back from his/her own way of solving things. And it's strange because there were times each of us forgot that we used to be friends before. The conflicts made us feeling annoyed about each other sometimes. The never ending fight made us go to bed with anger in our minds and wake up thinking in prejudices. We all especially remember one situation where everybody's patience and empathy had left. Two of us were crying and the thought of cancelling this whole project and calling it a failure was already mentioned in words.

It seemed to be a really bad start for our project but at the end it still proved to be necessary. Even if we still fight sometimes today everybody is more able to accept the other person's thoughts. We take each other more serious in our feelings and finally know again how to talk fair to each other. The first week turned out to be an intense experience. Let's hope this was enough of a lesson for all of us.