Maybe it’s my current journey with cognitive behavioral therapy or just being more elegant, more specific, with the media content I absorb, but I can’t help but think that there still has way too much information to choose from. The Dark Ages was a time when information was lost in one part of the world, even as another, and many others, flourished in enlightened times.

But more than the return of taste and the requirement in the way we spend our time, I have come to the conclusion that if I want to get through this period of drastic geopolitical change, I must establish moments of calm and calm in my routine. . I need islands of patience and foresight, of connection with friends and family, outside of the constant barrage. There is a lot of darkness in the world, but there can be light in some places.

I think these times are also important, and this is one more reason to do my best in such times, when my industry, journalism, is threatened in my country and in my homeland by political radicals and foreign interests. By doing my best, I can hope to overcome the pain, suffering and loss I feel as an Arab, and reflect on how I can use my chosen vocation to demand this change in the world .

Growing up in Al Ain as a third culture kid, I was raised with a broader perspective on the world, and politics seemed almost omnipresent in my life at times. We had conservative religious English teachers and progressive political math teachers, physics teachers who gave us fantasy novels, and history teachers who pushed us toward science.

I don’t know if this experience is unique to the UAE or if it’s just my experience, but when there is this kind of diversity in the classroom, this kind of exchange of ideas instills in students the values consensus building and technocracy. One of these was a series of environmental campaigns that the school made us carry out when I was in the middle of my GCSEs; “think globally, act locally”.

And maybe it was just my promotion, but given the wealth of advanced degrees, engineers, lawyers, teachers, doctors, and financial professionals in this field, I tendency to believe that forcing students – even young people – to always be thinking, growing and changing has given us the tools to make this change in our own lives, so that it can spread.

Now speaking of Generation Z, social media has put us on the path to a globalist mindset, tempered by the knowledge that we can only control our own lives.