Our new A Calendar to Live By 2018 will be unveiled at the Pink Carpet Gala on September 9, and we’re so excited that the big day is almost here! We’re offering you a brief introduction to the 2018 calendar girls team here on our blog – we asked them to share a story about one of their life-shaping moments and we’ll post the responses here over the next few weeks. We hope you’ll come meet these women at the Gala! Click HERE for a link if you’d like to learn more or get tickets!
When my one and only child was born on Aug 22, 2009, I learned about my capacity for love and what my purpose was on this earth (Newsha and her daughter are pictured left). I felt a love I had NEVER felt before, and I was shocked by it. As a girl I was incredibly attached to my grandmother. When I met my husband, I fell so wildly in love that I feared that I could not handle it. But when Azi was born, I just stared and stared at her in awe with my heart, that was overflowing with love for this being; I felt disbelief that she grew inside me, and a daunting fear that she would somehow get hurt.
Years of doubt about my purpose in life were erased when I realized I had to work so hard to feed, protect and grow this child into a good world citizen. I learned to be less self-centered and suck it up and put on a happy face sometimes, especially during chemo. I learned to love others more and push aside embarrassment in order to take care of my daughter. She changed me completely.
-Newsha Dau