Yasmin

That little girl, returning from school and hurrying to throw herself into her family’s warm embrace as she always did, had no idea that life would take her parents away from her, leaving her suddenly surrounded by people among whom she could not find the warm embrace that had been taken from her, leaving her helpless.

Her days passed among them, deepening her conviction that the life she was living now would not be her future. So she escaped her reality into her imagination, building there a different life she had dreamed of, down to the smallest details, until the opportunity came to turn her dream into reality.

Her imagined scenarios were not easily attained in reality, and she encountered obstacles that allowed fear to creep into her heart; yet she fought her fears, striving to build a life of her own, believing that self-sufficiency would be the solution to ending her troubles.

And during her journey to transform her life, she found the warm embrace she had missed for years, realizing that this was what she had truly been missing—and what she had always strived for—and it was the greatest reward since the very first step she took toward changing her reality.

Inside each of us is a Yasmin; inside each of us is a quest for a safe harbor where we can anchor when we grow weary of life’s crashing waves.