Loyalty should be on top of your list

The best thing that you can do in life is to work for your own country — not just in terms of giving back, but in terms of loyalty. Citizens should appreciate what they have in their country, regardless of what the country has provided for them. To give your country the best of what you have is not something that you do as favour, rather something you do because your country deserves the best and should always be your first priority.

As UAE’s late founding father Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan said: “There is no glory without the glory of the country and its citizens...” Similarly, in any country around the world, people should take care of their homeland because their country deserves their time, education, and life.

— The reader is an Emirati international affairs graduate based in Abu Dhabi