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Freedom2BE — A Life Strategy for Lost Time
I am honoring myself; therefore, I do more of what gives me joy.
~ Kenneth Soares
(Insight Timer meditation)
Seven years ago, I was shaken by the feeling that I was living in someone else’s life. It was a good life no doubt. In fact, it was one that I’d crafted by my very own hands.
It was a life that had led me into the benevolent arms of the Qatar Foundation, where I worked for three and a half years with ROTA.
It was a life replete with a great salary, alongside some pretty impressive benefits that included paid for housing, a car allowance, funds toward an annual flight home (or anywhere else for that manner), and a happy birthday email sent to me by HR every year.
It was a life filled with doing good deeds, for the disadvantaged within the Gulf and Asia, while working with some multinational — and pretty fabulous — colleagues. We were only 40 people, yet we had about 18 different nationalities (from all over the world) between us.
It was a life working in an extremely multicultural environment, from which we provided others on the Asian continent with access to quality education. We also nurtured youth in Qatar to be more empowered, unified and socially minded, while…
