What should I do with my life
if you are trying to figure out
life i understand
i wish someone gave me a guide when i
was young
and told me how to live i was always
troubled by the idea
that no one ever gave me this guide how
should i think
what’s my purpose this was me when i was
young in the middle
i was a child and i remember i always
used to approach my mom
and ask her how should i think what
should i do when i grow up what’s my
purpose
and she gave me no answers she was
always pissed when i asked her
this question she never liked it i got
no answers
and then i grew up more and i started i
still
i’m still asking the same questions i
remember i used to sit with my friends
and we used to debate the same ideas
what should we do how should we think
and no one had any answer for me i
didn’t know what was the truth
i thought this was going to be the path
of my life
i thought it was it was going to be
linear
and straightforward and very clear
and whenever someone asked me what do
you want to become
i always had no answer for that i didn’t
know what i want to do
all i knew is i was good at art so i
remember my father came to me and told
me since you know
how to draw how to sketch maybe you can
become an architect
and so i did i started architecture for
five years and i started then doing
things like these
and so art led me to
architecture this was the first link i
found in my life
but then i started becoming interested
in
3d modeling and visualizing buildings
and so
architecture led me to visualization i
started doing things like these
so i’m starting to find new links in my
life
and then suddenly i became interested in
furniture design and product design and
started doing things like these from
cardboard and wood
but then i started reading more and
getting more educated
and i started becoming interested in
philosophy
and the next thing i knew i started
writing well i was a
very bad writer when i looked back then
i never thought i would be a good
writer but the more i read
the more i felt i have ideas in my head
i want to express
so i started writing and i wrote a book
so reading led me to writing
the more i read the more i started
becoming interested in philosophy
and philosophy led me to business why
because i wanted to share this
information with the world i want
wanted to invite the world to the ideas
i read in books great books
and business was one way to do that
because businesses can influence people
so i came to japan
came to japan to study business and
embark a new journey
and the more i study business the more i
find a connection
between business and psychology because
businesses
know the human mind because they want to
sell to people
they know how people think facebook
knows that because we always come back
to facebook
because of these little cute red
notifications
amazon knows psychology too because
we are we are always joined back to go
back to amazon because
of their ratings and the reviews and the
discounts
and it also translates in architecture
because when we
look at a building like this with so
many details
we it shows majesty so it works in our
psychology too
so these when i look back at hindsight
these are the links i find
in my life art let me do architecture
and then architecture allowed me to
visualization visualization product
design and so on
and then business led me to psychology
i started to find links in my life and
remember i used to think this was
going to be my life but it turned out to
be something like this
it was very unpredictable not clear
not straightforward and i started doing
things totally different from the things
i did before
i started finding links
so it was almost like my unique dna my
path my journey in life
and so is yours you have your own unique
dna
your own journey in life and your own
set of skills that you can link together
so whenever someone asks me what do you
like it’s very hard to answer that
question
because the more i find connection
between things the more
i like more things now i appreciate i
appreciate every experience in my life
because i know the importance of every
little experience
it might connect with with something
something else in the future
and lead me to something totally
different so my realization was that
everything is connected everything is
connected
so i started embracing every little
experience
because i realized that everything is
connected again
and i started uh becoming i’m always
becoming i’m sensing that
i’m always experiencing more i’m always
creating a new self
so i’m always becoming
so the problem today is the world is
open
we have the internet and so many
opportunities we fear of missing out so
many things we can do
how should we choose our then decide our
life our future so many things we can do
and so little time right
we fear missing out
but remember everything is connected
so i thought that my life would be like
this
right linear and clear but when i
understood that everything is connected
i understood that doors of opportunities
from the back
are connected so when we when we choose
one thing one door of opportunity to
open
it may lead to something else in the
future with that realization
i no longer fear choosing one path
because i might connect it with
something else
and it might lead to something else
now why are we losing connections why is
it hard for us to decipher
and connect events in our life and
things we like
well it is because of noise
noise from society society tells us
how to dress how to walk how to act
and parents also tell us how to act and
how to
wear our clothes and what to do and what
to not and what not to do
and also media so our many external
influences are
influencing us and telling us what to do
and it acts as a barrier between what we
actually want
from the inside and what we actually do
there’s a huge shield of noise coming
from the external world
that doesn’t allow us to do what we
truly want so we do something
we don’t truly want and we end up being
unhappy i remember when we were when we
were children
we used to be very curious we used to
ask
very a lot of questions why
does the airplane how does the airplane
airplane fly
why does the moon follow us all these
questions we used to
ask them but when we grew up we stopped
asking questions because
society expected us to have answers
we stopped being curious
so the truth is no one knows
this is a very good truth that i
realized an important truth
that i realized now i wish someone told
me that when i was a child like no one
knows
no one has a guide for you no one has a
leader for you
that you have decide and you have to
create your own truth in life
with that realization i figured out that
i should create my own truth and i
should write my own guide
so i started returning to myself and
create my own truth
and my last connection was psychology
led me to nature
why nature because when we zoom out of
earth
to space from that vantage point this is
who we are now
we are one little dot a pale blue dot
they called it
this this is japan and this is my
country lebanon
we are all united in this one dot
because there are no boundaries there
there are no flags there
from the vantage point of space we are
not so i started
i started always to remind myself to
dare to experiment outside the borders
of my culture
to always learn and most importantly
unlearn
if i have if i consume bad information
in the past
i can edit it and i can change it i
always remind myself to assume nothing
take nothing for granted and always
question everything
why do i have five fingers why do i have
two feet
how do i walk question every little
detail in my life and take nothing for
granted
so to find our own truth
we have to start connecting experiences
in our life
to find what we want what you truly want
so we have to experience
more and in my opinion
if you want to experience more we have
to break fear this is the problem
if we were able to break fear and stop
being afraid
we can be we can experiment more and we
can connect more and we can find what we
truly want
i love this quote by alexander the great
he said
throughout every generation of the
humankind they have there has been a
constant war
a war with fear a constant war
a war with fear those who have heard the
courage
to defeat it are made free but those who
are conquered by it are made to suffer
until death takes them or they defeat it
so our only war is an internal war and
it’s a war with fear
if we were able to defeat it we can find
our own truth our own answers
so i always ask myself how can i be less
afraid i don’t want to be afraid
how can i be less afraid and i always
remind myself that rejection
is always always better than regret
is it it’s okay for me to to get
rejected
for people to tell me no why because
rejection is okay
it’s better than regretting it in the
future and saying
no i wish i did that i always remind
myself that rejection will only hurt me
will only sting
for one minute but regret will last my
whole life
i regret something for my whole life
that i didn’t do it
so this is a reminder for me i don’t
want to be afraid
so always ask always ask and don’t be
afraid remember
juxt rejection only stings for a minute
but regret
lasts a whole lifetime i love this quote
also by robert kiyosaki he’s japanese
american
businessman and he says when it comes to
life and money
people always like to play it safe
because they like
to be secure to feel secure so they are
not directed by passion
they are are directed by fear fear
guides them not passion
so always ask and stay curious
and be passionate about what you do if
you don’t know what you want to do
find it experience more
this was me yes a few years later
and what changed in this picture is i i
decided that i’m gonna
follow i’m gonna find my own truth
because no one
has a guide for me i’m gonna build my
own guide
so i decided to find my own truth
so always dare to experiment outside the
borders of your culture
learn and unlearn assume nothing
and always question everything thank you
very much