My dream is simple. One day, I hope to start a charity called the Soul of an Angel Foundation where I could annually take young scholars and thousands of kids from disadvantaged homes on summer trips around the world. By doing so, I hope to create a new breed of compassionate and truthful citizens. By showing kids how other people live, communicate, worship, and struggle, I hope they will one day flourish to become intelligent and selfless mentors and world leaders for a more peaceful and ideal world. By putting these children into worlds outside of their reach, they will attain perspectives from different realities outside of their televisions. They will grow up with a fuller understanding of the cost of war, the price of freedom, the cost of globalization, as well as, witness all the beauty and cruelty going on in the world.I am the way I am because I was fortunate enough to have a resourceful father who was able to send me around the world at a young age, and drop me off in different countries for long periods of time. My experiences as a young social scientist, have given me the global master perspective that is always alive and present throughout all my writings. I don't need a sociology degree to understand what is happening in local and global communities - past, present, or future, for I have already mastered the talent of tapping into the pulse of any man on any street in any country around the world. I also have the ability to communicate to any man cross-culturally -- from the ruthless robber and gravedigger to any CEO, king or queen alike.
Mastering the global perspective should be a mandatory prerequisite in our learning institutions. By building world-class citizens with the master mind perspective, we can eliminate ignorance, hatred, and unnecessarily greed. We need to constantly shift perspectives to understand the people in front of us and around us. By training our youth to start doing so early in life, they will blossom with enough emotional muscle to be more aware of the actions they take, the decisions they make, and how these choices will impact the lives of others.
It's time for the world to evolve with progress. EVERYBODY needs to train themselves to study situations from every perspective in order to understand the bigger picture of a problem at hand. By doing so, you will master the ability to meet a peaceful resolution and understand how you handle a certain event could effect your home, workplace, neighborhood, city, state, and world. Start mastering the skill of rotating perspectives TODAY.
This is my dream and I do believe that destiny is only manifested through action. Nobody will ever reach ultimate perfection in this lifetime, but trying to achieve it is a full-time job. Start now and don't stop. Make your book of life a musical. Never abandon obligations, but have fun leaving behind a colorful legacy. Never allow anybody to be the composer of your own destiny. Take control of your life, and never allow limitations implanted by society, tell you how your music is supposed to sound — or how your book is supposed to be written. Keep creating new chapters in your personal book and never stop re-inventing and perfecting yourself. Try new things. Pick up new hobbies and books. Travel and explore other cultures. Never stay in the same city or state for more than five years of your life. There are many heavens on earth waiting for you to discover. Seek out people with beautiful hearts and minds, not those with just beautiful style and bodies. The first kind will forever remain beautiful to you, while the other will grow stale and ugly. Learn a new language at least twice. Change your career at least thrice, and change your location often. Like all creatures in the wild, we were designed to keep moving. When a snake sheds its old skin, it becomes a more refined creature. Never stop refining and re-defining yourself. We are all beautiful instruments of God. He created many notes in music so we would not be stuck playing the same song. Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and volume of each of the songs you create along your journey and play on. Nobody will ever reach ultimate perfection in this lifetime, but trying to achieve it is a full-time job. Start now and don't stop. Make your book of life a musical. Never abandon obligations, but have fun leaving behind a colorful legacy. Never allow anybody to be the composer of your own destiny. Take control of your life, and never allow limitations implanted by society, tell you how your music is supposed to sound — or how your book is supposed to be written.
By Suzy Kassem*
