As I approach my fifteenth year at The National in which I published nearly 4,000 articles, most of them built around at least one or two interviews gleaned from adventures here and abroad, I still ask myself, despite the many amazing moments experienced, the same question at the start of the year: what is the point?
While technically and in terms of craft, I have become a better and smarter journalist, it doesn’t always feel that way. And yet, like most creative fields, something keeps happening that reminds me of the joy and purpose of what I do.
Whether it’s seeing a history-making concert performance, Metallica in a Riyadh desert, or The Rolling Stones' maiden visit to Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Park, the dread of manoeuvring the crowds and security falls away and I remember why I do this and feel useful again, even if only to myself.
It is a cycle
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