To A Generous Heart

I started my day to an email that brought up many thoughts.

One, that in different junctures of my life, I have been incredibly lucky to cross paths with extraordinary human beings who have touched my life and made it forever more special.

Two, that despite every negative saying I have ever heard about the pursuit of perfectionism, people who have ever moved me with their endeavors, have all been perfectionists. Tireless in their pursuit of an ideal.

Some years ago, a friend introduced me to another friend with a huge vision. A woman who had achieved success in the worldly definition of things, and although now she could have been lunching and yachting and shopping, she was spending her days fighting for strategic community philanthropy and giving, and ideas that were well over my head.

Except this voice was so compelling that I couldn't help but to listen. And when you listen you learn. And the more I heard, the more I understood how lucky I was to be sitting across this incredible human being.

In the end, some great ideas are just too ahead of their times, the infrastructure is not yet there to carry them the whole way, but their birth will have forever illuminated the path.

Dear Noosheen H., thank you for the many inspirations that you have brought into my life as a human, as an Iranian American and as a friend. And thank you for everything good that will surely be kindled by your ideas, in a future not so far off.

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