Razan Alaqeel's

Those who dream, will definitely achieve.  The efforts we put into chasing our goals will be recognized.  Our faith in God, and those long nights praying with so much hope in our hearts.  The taste of accomplishment, that happiness, the laughter, oh and those tears of pure joy.  Standing up for the right, and fighting for the good.  We were all born great, but at the end of the day, it is up to us to realize that greatness and use it proactively.  Nobody’s better than the other, we are made different so we can come together and join those differences together for our own good.  If we’re the same, then competing will never get us anywhere, because “team work makes the dream work” according to a great wise friend of mine.  Working hand by hand to reach the finish line will get us further and further in life.  This past week, I had the honor to be the Saudi Delegate to the United Nations Youth Assembly, and this is the story of how this week transformed my whole life. I arrived to N

My strong shivers which ran through every part of my body.  My acing bones against that hard floor.  My head suffering to find a comfortable spot on my backpack.  My head, lost in a million thought.  "Why am I doing this?  Am I seriously going to sleep?  Did I just miss an announcement?!"  I laid there on the floor of the Charlotte International Airport from 10 pm until 4 am.  Rolling around, shivering, thinking, and truthfully: on the verge of breaking down and crying. I hugged my friends goodbye by the airport's United Airlines gate.  In my head, I was ready to check-in my suitcase, eat something, and then sleep in the lounge which I was planning to pay for instead of a hotel.  Yet little did I know about what was going to happen.  I walked into United's desk, and there was nobody. It actually smelled like soap and looked shiny, so I figured that they just cleaned the desk and went on a break.  But everyone was cleaning the airport as if they were closing it and