Why I’m doing this

Because it’s what I’m here to do.

I’ve been through numerous challenges and truth be told, there was a time when I allowed these challenges to change me.

My perception was different before - I used to think that what I went through was difficult and unfair. I won’t belittle what I experienced as most of it was quite difficult to navigate, but all the challenges had a few things in common:

• They were human.

• They became subsequently easier to navigate. The first mountain was the hardest to climb.

• They ended.

The most important choice I made after that, was deciding not to punish a world full of possibilities and hope for experiencing difficult situations that I can count on two hands.

I’m far from perfect or a finished product, and the challenges won’t stop here but I made a choice to no longer let pain change me. I firmly believe everything I went through was teaching me how to get to this point: to be able to spread safe, non-judgemental places. I will continue to welcome any challenges I face because they will teach me compassion, resilience and innovative solutions.

I know where I’m headed and the kind of legacy I will leave, and I have the utmost confidence that I will have enough time to do so. How I get there or what happens on the way, well that’s just part of the excitement of the unknown.