Growing Up A Leader
Ever since I was a wee-young thing, my mother has always inspired me to strive for my best. She taught me morals and instilled values of ambition, discipline and the courage to always dream big in my persona since a very young age. That, and combined with my own passion, determination and wild life goals, has resulted in a fire in my heart to bring about change in the world, and to impact millions of lives with blossoming positive change in their lives.
The world is constantly changing underneath our feet. It grows, it develops, it falls back, and it progresses — some changes faster than others. It is not a new fact that some countries are more developed while others have more room to grow. Thus, when 6-year-old Subah returned from England, the country she grew up in, to her birth country, her young mind would constantly see points of improvement in her new home. It was a third world country after all.
As I grew, I realized what used to severely bother child me was not that why my home was not developing as fast major players like England and the United States were — but rather why people were not taking more of an initiative to better our home. Why weren’t we doing the best in our capability? Turns out, life is a little more complicated than that. There are more complicacies to governing a country, and many factors needed to come into consideration while bearing the responsibility for a whole nation. Nonetheless, the spark for leading and doing the best I can possibly do for my home and the world has been ignited in my heart since a young age, and continues to burn as bright as ever till this day.
Not only this, but I aim to inspire and empower as many people as I can for the right cause — to bring about an impactful change in our world and to brighten up billions of lives with beaming smiles and happiness and relief in their hearts. It is all of our homes after all. It is like we are all a big family. I personally believe that we all are born for a reason, and if we do not take the chance to make a beautiful tomorrow, and give the future generations the privileges we could not have today, then we might as well have wasted our opportunity in life.
Being a Professor teaching leadership in universities, my mother would make me sit down in her lessons and learn a thing or two about leadership. She would tell me what leadership really means: to influence people to bring an impact in this world with your inner integrity and passion. It is to inspire, empower and move people with your drive to do better and to combine together to bring about change in the world which you can be proud of.
It is our duty, as avid and zealous human beings who wish to effect the world for its good, to be the change we wish to see in the world. No good if we advocate for equality, innovation and a steady balanced world and at home we are lazy, two-faced slobs. This battle is not an easy one — and neither is the vicious world of politics — but the passion and desire for change within us is not an easy one to quench, and if we hone our drive and determination to bring difference in the world and progress it, we can work miracles. After all, our generation is the new speakers, the new leaders, new voters and the new voices of the world. Why should it not be the new change the world receives too?
Another thing few things that has ignited my fighting spirit and helped me want to grow up a leader is my familiar background and the rich and opinionated books that my well-wishers have made me read. My grandfather has definitely done his fair share to advocate for justice in our country, as well as fought in the war. The books I grew up reading, had bright young protagonists with a fighting spirit so strong, they could take on entire nations. All of these have inspired me, and made me think how I, too, could bring about change in my home, and the world at large.
It is not an unknown fact that many world leaders, of todays’ day and age manipulate their words and intentions in order to gain a following and ultimately grow in power. The temptation of power and the balance between it and leadership is a risky road to walk. There is no guarantee that we will always remain with pure intentions, but I say it is worth it to try and focus on our core goal, and do as much as we can to positively influence the planet we live in. I personally believe that it is harder to decide which is worse: no leader or a corrupt one. It is best described by the quote “… perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find it to their own surprise that they wear it well. *” To develop our world’s progress toward fruition is something we must do.
I am grateful towards all of those who have inspired me on the path towards leadership, and those who continue to inspire me today — even in the most surprising of ways. The love and encouragement I have gotten from family, friends, acquaintances and voices all over the world is what pushes the youth towards greatness and success. Thanks to all of them, I have never once doubted that I can achieve the innovative dream that I desire. Hope is a powerful driving force. And while I am still young, and still not sure which field I desire to find a job in — if it is in law or politics, or science, information technology or even perhaps medicine, one thing I am sure of, my aim to be a leader and achiever in that field is as resilient as ever.
