Do you know what's your purpose in life?

Do you really believe that what you are currently doing right
now will be the same next year, in five years, in ten years, or even for the rest of your life? How sure you
are In this course? In this program? Do you see this? (Papers) Do you really want to use this kind of
sheets and papers? Not only this, but even those worksheets on the web and computers. To balance
transactions, to work and study at midnights just to solve accounting problems? And forget what's the
bigger problem ahead of us not only in our nation but also all over the world. Is this what you really
want to do for the rest of your life? Think about it.

There are over 50 million refugees in the world right now. And the Syrian conflict has created one of the
worst humanitarian crises of our time. Over half of the country’s pre-war population — more than 12
million people — have been killed or forced to flee their homes.

According to the United Nations, one-third of the world's total refugee population or more than 6.2
million people have fled their homes and remain displaced within Syria. Some 1.8 million of whom were
newly displaced in 2017 — approximately 6,550 people are displaced each day. They live in informal
settlements, crowded in with extended family or sheltering in damaged or abandoned buildings. *1st
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And from this population almost half are children, 55% of them are out of school. 18 out of 1000
die before their 5th birthday. And 85% of refugee children are living below the poverty line. While 28%
suffer from stunting due to malnutrition.

Keeping this in mind, what can you do? Just think about this, you are living a comfortable and peaceful
life, with foods, shelter, clothes, even gadgets and internet while other people are enduring all the pain,
suffering and violence for 8 years. Imagine? What if you are on their feet? What if your family is there?
What if that same kind of situation would happen in your place? We are family here. There's nothing
wrong with being an accountant, its a good profession but if you know that you can do more than that.
Why hesitate? Maybe your smallest step become a way to change their perspective in life. To keep on
fighting. Remember that a kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal. Like what
Martin Luther King, Jr. said, somewhere along the way, we must learn that there is nothing greater than
to do something for others.

It's about time to realize what has been said in the scriptures, based from Mark 10:45, "For even the
Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." Let us
not hesitate to help and serve others, let us help our brothers and sisters.

Yes, being an accountant is good. Fulfilling your dream is happy. But you know what? The purpose of life
is not only to be happy. But also to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make
some difference that you have lived and lived well. Let's fight for Syria! Let us embrace the reality of life.
Thank you!