大象传媒

A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Yousra Samir Imran, a British Egyptian writer and author

Good morning.

When I was a child, I wanted to be many things when I grew up. At the age of six I was obsessed with drawing houses and during one summer play scheme, a teenager suggested to me that I could one day be an architect.

I wanted to be an architect until I then decided I wanted to be a teacher. I adored my Year 5 teacher and the way in which every day felt like a new adventure with her. I wanted to be able to replicate that for other children.

A year later I wanted to become a published author, and spent all my free time writing stories and sending handwritten letters to my favourite authors.

From then on, every year or so I would change my career plans 鈥� I wanted to be everything from a dentist to a politician, and a chat show host to a stay-at-home-mum of three.

Like most people, as an adult I ended up falling into what I do now without exactly planning it 鈥� a journalist and copywriter.

But I still often think about all the things I could still be 鈥� a bestselling author, a physiotherapist, a human rights lawyer, a university lecturer.

I think there is no upper age limit for wanting to change what you want to be in life. The Victorian novelist George Eliot once said, 鈥淚t is never too late to be what you might have been.鈥�

Oh Lord, Most Generous, The Bestower, please continue to allow us to see life鈥檚 endless possibilities and grant us the means to pursue whatever it is we want to be.

Ameen.

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