How Far Will You Go?

YOU'VE BEEN HUSTLING TO MAKE IT IN LIFE…NOTHING GIVES…SUDDENLY YOU SEE GOLD…

You Don’t Know Me! I do not recognize mid-tones If I walk, so in a big way, if I laugh, so to tears, if I sing, so in full voice – this is my motto! But I should Remember that everything is passing, and tomorrow a new day will come I should understand that others do not react as quickly to life as I do So I must give them time to navigate I speak for Anna Sorokin, a k a Anna Delvey - and to my own demons that lie dormant in my soul I speak my truth

Anna is a tale of an ordinary woman who just wanted to be given a chance to be noticed and be given what she viewed was her fair share of Manhattan

Not everyone will agree to what extent she went to get what she saw as a must have life for herself! The jury is still out whether she came really close to achieving her dream to create the AD Foundation's exclusive club a reality!

I believe most of us women can relate! Being in boy’s club the odds are stacked against us, just by being female! And that’s as far as most women goes, however some of us, me Inclusive have the double minority label stuck on our foreheads! We’re immigrants and females living in the diaspora!

AN OPINION EDITORIAL BY JENNIFER NASH

Like Anna, that just means working twice as much as other women and more so overcoming the prejudices we women have to deal with anyway

So while in my opinion as a person with integrity and pride, I would not sink as low as she did to get my HML Foundation going by any means necessary Equally, while I could relate to Anna’s vision (I have my own outlandish one); I could not imagine living with myself (sleeping at night) knowing that I had to make a deal with the devil himself to get my way!

To that point, I’d rather continue the creative begging of pennies and coining up of bread crumbs or asking for pocket change of donations, to take my time to build the Foundation on solid foundation (no pun intended) than gravitate towards instant gratification by sleeping with the devil!

That’s also not where our differences end, on one hand Anna was obsessed with fashion labels, living a high life and rubbing shoulders with HNWI by an means necessary to get what she so passionately wanted, I on the other hand, want nothing to do with that breed of humans, period! While I respect them, I can't relate,

Of course I appreciate money can have great impact on any cause and I'm not naive to think money doesn't talk but I need (not want) to build an immortalised legacy for the underprivileged people in society by people who actually understand how it feels to be so close to the ground! That means using clean money and not that which is tainted!

That’s where the Windows Of Change come in The HML Foundation is not just an impetuous dream that came out of thin air! It’s an authentic story of own passion for books and never having a library in my community where I could access them It's been 16 years in the making

The HML Foundation’s relationship with books comes from my own experience of exchanging book reviews with my dad in our two people bookclub That lived experience led me to founding HML named in memory of my dad - Henry Morrison Limula

That being said, I can empathise with Anna and how she got to a point of no return at such a tender age of 27; with the pressure of the society we live in today, it’s not surprising that young people today feel the need to either get rich quick or leave actualise their dreams instantly! What with the Gig economy and social media pressure ti be somebody!

The biggest takeaway from Inventing Anna what sentiments you were left with after watching it is that it could have been worse and I strongly believe that her heart was in the right place - just not the the right strategy

Anna did all this while attempting to secure a $25 million loan from a hedge fund to create an exclusive arts club. Swindling her way into a life of luxury, Sorokin deceived Manhattan’s elite into believing she was a German heiress worth 60 million euros.

What do you think of her story?

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