Me: a friend of mine goes to university just outside of Paris, and its the same university in which Leonardo DaVinci went to. How cool is that?My sister: It's cool, but it could also be you. You never know, in the future people might be telling others that they went to the same university Ruby Woo went to.
I've noticed that my sister has been striking me with a few sentences of sheer wisdom that usually get me thinking for a really long time. What are my plans in life? I know that I have my plans laid out. I'm going to graduate, work for a couple of years, continue towards my masters degree and then hopefully my Ph.D. Yet I still look around me. People I've heard about who made and are making a difference in this world. I want to be that. I don't want to live a routined life anymore. I have dreams to become someone, not for the sake of being known worldwide, but to actually make a difference, as cliche as that sounds. I don't mind spending the rest of my life storing homes for african orphans. I don't mind spending the rest of my life committed to preserving and protecting wildlife species from having them extinct. I don't belong in this country. Not that I have anything against it, after all Kuwait is my country. But it's just that there's something in me that just wants to help beyond our borders.
I'm the type of girl who goes to the Friday market every now and then to have a fight with a man who's trying to sell a newborn puppy trapped in a tiny birds cage into handing him over to me. I'm the type of girl whom while driving and spotting a tiny kitten in the middle of a bridge stops and gets out to get the kitten out of harms way. I'm the type of girl who takes a stray cat that got ran over by a car to the vet. I'm the type of girl that dedicates her time to the Kuwaiti Handicapped Society just to make someone's day even if they might not remember me the next. I'm the type of girl who got into a fight with her parents because they wouldn't let her volunteer in Kenya for 2 weeks to help the orphans. I'm the type of girl who dreams of working in animal conservations in Africa. I'm the type of girl, knows that sometimes people think she's stupid for following such causes.
I know that people call me crazy for wanting to help animals, for wanting to risk my life in an AIDS infested country just to "help" others, my own parents say that I take things too far and that I'm too adventurous. It's not about seeking adventures. It's about seeking my dreams, as wacky as they may seem.
I know my abilities are limited to an extent. I know my knowledge and intelligence can only contribute to this world in a micro-small capacity. I don't have it in me to be a doctor so I can help cure others and finding cures for god knows what. I must admit that at times I do feel petty and stupid when I compare myself to other med students. I feel that what does a girl studying finance has to offer to this world? I don't mind knowing that for a fact, but I do however, know that I have it in me to help. It's in my blood. It's what I do most.
P.S It's just something I've been thinking about for quite a while. Glad I got it off my chest!