It is safe by the edge. Jump and Miracles can happen!

Desire is not a luxury emotion. It is not an afterthought or a passing craving. It is a signal, an embodied whisper that speaks of something deeper. Beneath every desire is a need: to grow, to belong, to matter, to be seen. I have come to understand desire as the human spirit reaching toward wholeness.

Throughout my life, desire has appeared in different shapes. As a child, it was a restless curiosity: a hunger to understand the world beyond the obvious. In architecture school, it became a longing to create spaces, iterations that triggered emotions, and conversations. More recently, as I stepped into coaching, it has been the yearning to connect with others’ journeys and to support their transformation.

Desire, I have learned, is less about wanting something outside of us and more about answering the call of something already inside.

And perhaps the most fundamental desire is the desire to live fully. To not just survive time but inhabit it with purpose. To not delay the call of one’s mountain, but to climb it, even with trembling legs.

Through this lens, my journey into coaching—and more specifically into becoming an ICF PCC-level coach—has been my response to that same desire.

It is an answer to the question: Am I truly committed to living my life fully?

This essay is not merely a retrospective reflection of a certification program. It is a declaration of who I have become—how I now see the world, how I lead others, and how I honor the art of coaching not as a skillset, but as a way of being. It is a story of the mountains I have chosen, the challenges faced, and the transformation embraced.

SEE YOU AT THE TOP!