She didn’t know, except that she wanted to do work that made a significant difference, that left the world a better place. The thought sounded too foolish and naive to articulate aloud, but Yara was clear that she didn’t want to waste her limited years on this earth in an endless, self-defeating pursuit of money and status, that what she wanted wasn’t only work but a meaningful existence. To live a life that was inspired, creative, free. Maybe that was why she felt a need to travel, to find out what she was supposed to be doing, to discover what else was out there.
