From Doing to Being: An Immigrant's Quandary

From compulsively chasing after achievements and wanting to fix other people's problems, to centering on my inner being and focusing on my own growth, it's been a sobering journey.

To be or to do, this is the question.

Up until recently, to be a successful human being in this world meant “doing” my best and achieving as many accomplishments as possible. To move upstream or to drown of hunger — this is the existential question I was ingrained with as a child of immigrants. There didn’t seem to be any other choice. All the famines my…