Jihad Saad – Expand Your Awareness, Transform Your Life

🌟What is a magical life? 🌟

Is it always great, happy, feeling good? I wish, but that’s not how it works. We live in a world of duality. As long as we live, there’ll be ups and downs, good and bad, beauty and ugliness.

Is it a life where you succeed in everything you do, where you accomplish all your desires? Oh I would have loved that! But that’s not the case. Defeat, failure, loss, pain.. are always a part of life! Even the greatest of our human legends and heroes have had their full share of failure, deception and grief.

So what is it then?
And does a magical life even exist? 🤔

To me, the turning point in my life that made all the difference, is when one day, many years ago, I dared to have a dream. I wanted to explore the world. To travel to places that are so far from the beaten track. To help people in need. To embark on a spiritual quest. To sleep under the stars. To follow my heart in a world that i was so hungry to experience, so hungry to explore.

I had no idea how to get there. I was just a freshly graduate engineer, studying my MBA in Paris. I was on a student loan to pay my university. A good corporate job in a big city seemed the best thing that life could offer me. A ‘good job’ was the path for which I was raised, educated and trained. But I couldn’t do it. 😞

I remember vividly that day on my French business school campus where all the big companies were coming to ‘recruit us’, we the freshly- graduate bright talents.

What I had to do was to wear a nice suit, look smart, print tens of copies of my CV, go around the booths, put in my CV applications for random companies i knew little about, applying to jobs where i had no idea what i’d be doing, to serve a mission i had no interest in. And then hope someone calls me back.

I didn’t want to do it.
And i burned my bridge.
I took the only suit i had at the time, and i donated it to charity.
I pledged to not wear any suit, and to not take part in the ‘campus recruitment’ day.
And by the time that campus day was happening, I had no suit to wear anyway! 😮

And I decided that I wouldn’t settle.
That i would figure it out.
That i’d follow my heart.
That i would dare chose a path of my own.
And that I’d fight for it if needs be. ✊

And that was the day my life became magical. 🌟

When i made this decision, did my desire suddenly show up in my life? No.
Did i get everything i wanted? Hell no.
Was it easy? Was it always pleasurable? No
Did i doubt myself? was i scared? Oh yes!
Did i fail along the way? Many times.
Was there pain and loss on the path? Yes!
Have i fulfilled all my dreams and desires in my life? I wish, but no.
Is there even a guarantee i’ll ever fully make all my dreams true? No.

But all of that doesn’t diminish the magic.

Because that day something in me was born that i cherish beyond anything else.

A passion was born in me that i had not felt before.
I suddenly had a drive to conquer.
A reason to live.
A mission.
A destination.
A worthy fight.
A destiny to accomplish.
A fire burning in my heart. 🔥

And that’s really what makes life magical!

It’s not the accomplishments or the trophies.

It’s the passion, the mission, the striving, that give life its juice!

Since that day, my life has never been ordinary. I was never bored. I could be well, i could be unwell, but one thing is sure, I was never ever bored!

I ended up starting my career as a humanitarian worker. I traveled to places that i’d never dreamt of knowing. I lived in cultures so different of my own that it stretched my identity. I’ve been to war zones and to natural disasters, also to earthly paradises like i’ve never seen before.

But more importantly than all, I got to discover and know who i was. To find peace and faith in my own heart. To find friendship with myself, and connection with my own spirit.

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You see, magic happens the moment you decide you’ll pursue your dream. The moment you decide that you won’t settle for ordinary. The moment you commit to step up for it! ✊

You’re only one decision away!

You can have it now, if you wish!

I don’t promise you it’ll be always easy, but trust me, you’ll never look back.

Rise up for your dream, and you’ll be filled with passion, drive, fire, and spirit.. 🔥🔥

and isn’t that the dream anyway?