| What is your most memorable childhood experience? | My most memorable childhood experience is impossible to limit to just one. As soon as I ask myself, my mind is flooded with tons of different cumulative memories, but I can say that they all involve my family unit. I see my father, my mother, my brothers and cousins, aunts and uncles, and my grandmother. Growing up, family was a core value and we spent so much time together and we were blessed with the resources to travel and experience the world. |
| What immediate family member do you closely identify with and why? | The immediate family member I most closely identify with is my father. First and foremost, we look exactly alike. Also, we share the same initials. I feel, among my brothers and I, I resemble him the most, his core values, the things we like and dislike, our personality mirrors each other eerily. But, most of all - I admire him more than anything and I try my best to mirror my behavior after the standard he set. |
| What character traits do you admire in an individual? | The character trait that I admire the most by far is discipline. Discipline is something that I see in the people I care about the most. Discipline is getting up to provide, to go to work, to take the extra hour to study your area of expertise for the life you want to have and be able to give to your loved ones. |
| What is the funniest thing ever to happen to you? | I am not sure what the funnest thing to happen to me is. I do enjoy listening to my mother’s stories at dinner parties (although I have already heard them in similar settings 1,000 times). She is consistently reminiscing on hilarious stories from our childhood. |
| If time and money were not an issue, where would you travel and why? | If time and money were not an issue there would be no limit. I would see every place I have imagined, nothing would be off limits. Traveling and experiencing this world authentically is a passion of mine. I think Africa (Egypt) would be very high on the list though. I have always been fascinated by the pyramids. |
| When and if you ever have children, what would you like to pass on to them? | I would like to pass on the ability to care. Care for yourself and for your friends, family and loved ones. We are more connected than ever in today’s climate and somehow because of this connectivity it feels like in today’s society we are more disconnected than ever. Caring for others, being dependable and showing love are the traits I hope I can pass along to my offspring. |
