If I had to choose a word to describe myself, without a doubt, that would be it. While I was growing up, in my beautiful\u00a0Barranquilla<\/strong>, a coastal city in northern Colombia, I had very clear that laughter, spontaneity and joy would be those traits that would be a part of me throughout my life. I am the daughter of a Lebanese Muslim and a Colombian Catholic, that met in an airplane, like the clear epiphany that when love and destiny conspire, all of the other details just fit in. I grew up being both a\u00a0\u00a0romantic and a dreamer, <\/strong>\u00a0with the firm belief that \u00a0dreams come true.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Citizen of the world<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n I had the fortune of growing up surrounded by a big and loving family. Besides having the unconditional support of my parents, my sister and my brother, I also had (and have) the infinite love of my grandparents, aunts, uncles, over 40 cousins and of all of those wonderful friends that I’ve met along the way. I was born with the blessing of belonging to two worlds: the Arab and the Latin, and that gave me the immense privilege of integrating them within me to know that for love, borders don’t exist and that\u00a0we all really do smile in the same language.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cMy shadow scared me and I felt that I didn’t have the tools that I needed to face life.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Even with all of this beauty, I’ve experienced throughout my life, moments of deep darkness. I felt that there was something in me that was missing. I was always anxious and my fears didn’t let me sleep at night. During my teenage years I felt even more misunderstood, angry and sad. I didn’t fit in with neither the children nor the adults. I’ve found myself a lot in that limbo, where\u00a0pessimism was my best friend.\u00a0<\/strong>My shadow scared me and I felt that I didn’t have the tools that I needed to face life. As I grew up, I felt that everything around me affected me deeply and that made me even more insecure.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=\u00bb1″ _builder_version=\u00bb3.21.1″ background_color=\u00bb#bfaee3″ custom_margin=\u00bb|||\u00bb custom_padding=\u00bb0px|0px|0px|0px\u00bb z_index_tablet=\u00bb500″][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\u00bbon\u00bb use_custom_gutter=\u00bbon\u00bb gutter_width=\u00bb1″ custom_padding=\u00bb0px|0px|0px|0px\u00bb make_equal=\u00bbon\u00bb bg_img_2=\u00bbhttps:\/\/shadyakarawiname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/conoceme-02.jpg\u00bb _builder_version=\u00bb3.21.1″ z_index_tablet=\u00bb500″][et_pb_column type=\u00bb1_2″ _builder_version=\u00bb3.0.47″][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u00bb3.21.1″ background_layout=\u00bbdark\u00bb custom_padding=\u00bb50px|50px|50px|50px\u00bb custom_padding_last_edited=\u00bbon|desktop\u00bb z_index_tablet=\u00bb500″]<\/p>\n Ever since I can remember, writing has been the channel by which I express the deepest feelings of my soul.<\/strong>\u00a0A I’ve always had around me, countless little notebooks, where I’ve written all about love, heart-break and everything in between. My dream always was to be a writer. <\/strong>\u00a0Being able to move the deepest fibers in people’s hearts. Before becoming one, I decided that I should go to university and chose two areas that passion me deeply:\u00a0 Psychology<\/strong>\u00a0and Journalism<\/strong>. After many years of living in Bogot\u00e1, that magical Colombian capital that became my home, I decided that the time had arrived for me to spread my wings and go experience first hand the day to day life of those different cultures that had fascinated me for so long.<\/p>\n \u201cI knew well that part of my joy, was directly connected with the possibility of being able to interact with men and women from different cultures.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n While enjoying those annual summers in our beloved Karaoun in Lebanon,\u00a0 I always had the opportunity to travel and connect with people from different cultures and creeds. I knew well that part of my joy, was directly connected with the possibility of being able to interact with men and women from different cultures. Being able to listen to different languages and get to know different ways of living, were the key factors in determining that I had to live in a city where different nationalities converged. After having the gift of travelling al around the globe, I visited\u00a0Germany<\/strong>\u00a0for the first time and my heart stopped. Even today, many years later, I can’t quite explain how or why, but I knew that that country would be my home, at least for a while. Munich was the chosen city and there, for several years, I had the blessing of interacting with people from all over.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n
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