Today we are re-sharing one of our favorite episodes, a conversation with Helena Husseini.
I usually live day by day. I always live every day like it’s going to be the last day. We learned that during the war. We don’t know when we’re going to die. So, you live every day like it’s going to be the last day. That’s what I do.”
– Helena Husseini
Helena Husseini is the vice-president of BETA, Beirut Ethical Treatment for Animals. BETA is the first and largest shelter in Lebanon with 850 dogs, many cats, a few horses, and a couple of monkeys.
Helena is also an architect. She has been with BETA since 2006, a few months before the Lebanon War started. As bombs dropped nearby, she drove around in her Jeep saving the injured and abandoned dogs that had been left behind.
Since then, she has been rescuing animals during the too many crises and catastrophes that have plagued Lebanon, including the 2019 financial collapse, the riots, COVID-19, and the blast that decimated Beirut.
This conversation is really one that’s about resilience, about grit, about what it means to show up every day, even when bombs are dropping, when there’s no access to money, when people are starving, and no one knows what tomorrow will look like.
It’s a conversation about what it means to choose the meaningful life. I hope that you are as completely floored by Helena and her stories as I was.
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