KUBBRA SAIT, Actor
“I’ll share a secret with you... I am not religious. Never have been! But that has never stopped me from bowing my head at any place of worship. I find it immensely fulfilling to surrender to the invisible power that exists, and to sync with the energy that numerous people believe in. It also, somehow, paralyses me from asking for anything. I just start mumbling a series of ‘Thank yous’. I can never be grateful enough for all that I have—it is so much more than I could have imagined. The reason I am telling you this is because we are all, at some level, haunted by the power of the unknown, especially in the current times. We have long believed that if we don’t reach the ‘finish line’, we will be done for in the larger scheme of things. Honestly, no-one had a clue about why or where we were running to. We just were.
But here’s the thing: we all have wishes and dreams, and it is the hope of attainting them that keeps us going. I have a few, too. A few for this world to be a better place for women. Other than the most pressing ones, like equality and empowerment, there are some that, in the race of life, we often overlook, or underestimate. But these are just as crucial as well...
Slowing Down the Pace
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