This was really integral for me to read I think. I’m just starting my first proper ‘job’ at 25 after doing my masters. It’s a low starter salary starter position job as a project coordinator role at a youth charity that changed my own life. All this time I’ve been thinking of how fast I can climb the ladder, get to that position of power that I’ve always wanted — so I can change the world but also because of ego. It’s only now, through your clarity here, that I realised I was ignoring the part of my self that got me into all of this; the part that cares about people and equality and so on. It’s ironic that I ignored that part of me when starting a job that is all about giving back, about changing young people’s lives like my own was by the very same charity.

Just reading this has given me a kick up my arse that I needed. I see now the futility of how I was thinking before and the fruitfulness of the purity of intention when starting this job. I thank you sincerely for this Umair.