I never believed I would have thoughts to share, stories to tell, or experiences to record. And now I reflect on my life and see how privileged I am to not just have these things, but also to have the resources to share them with the world. I look around and see that there are scores of people who do not even know that their wisdom, whatever amount of it they have, has the potential to touch someone's life - the potential to enlighten someone. And I, a young woman who has not even completed a fourth of her life, have entered on a quest to impart what little wisdom I have in hopes that one day I may inspire someone else to do the same.
This summer I begin an adventure - a journey to a small school (Parivartan) in a large slum of India. Though I have been there before, I go this time with a new goal. I hope to be able absorb from these children their irrepressible urge to learn, their innocent perception of the world, and their faith in each other's abilities. Yet I also hope to be able to impart on them knowledge - the knowledge that there does exist a world beyond the one they know, the knowledge that there are possibilities, the knowledge to dream. I simply want to be able to touch the lives of these children as much as they are about to touch mine. I urge you to join me in this exciting journey of enlightenment and wish with my entire heart that, along the way, you may once again learn how to learn, love, and dream like a child...
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