Did you choose your name ?

I didn’t choose mine!!! We don’t choose our country, our passport, our religion, or even the family we spend a lifetime learning to embrace, negotiate with, fight for, or sometimes free ourselves from.
Yet we spend years trying to defend , understand — and often escape — the labels we were born into.

As we step into 2026, may light reach every heart.
May we remember that life is not measured by where we come from, but by what we choose to create within the time between two dates : our birth and our departure.

Whether you are working in between jobs, leading a company, or running a home… Remember :our own story is what matters. It is the one no one else can write,
and that alone is something to be proud of.

Whether you've studied at Harvard, a public university, or never attended university at all…Whether you were born in a small village where Wi-Fi barely reaches, or in a city of millions, where the noise never sleeps…Whether your family tree carries hundreds of celebrated names, or barely a few that were never recorded !!

There is no “better” or “less."

Only different beginnings....Only unique paths...Only human stories unfolding at their own pace.

As long as we are here, we still have pages to write , moments to collect, and meanings to build.

Wishing everyone a year where we walk lighter, live truer, and write our stories with pride.