With a great honor I received the news of my best friend Elias Track getting a special observance from his Grace Isaam Darwish; the Bishop of the Melkite Catholic Church for Australia and New Zealand, by awarding him a Medal for his volunteer work to the community.
Elias has been for long time a devoted hard worker who is willing to give his own rest time to make the world a better place for others to live in. Ever since I knew him, back in the year 1980, I knew nothing but his simplicity, cheerfulness, very profound sense of humor, sharp mind and restless hard working spirit; qualities that he inherited from his parents and when a character is fretted in one’s genes no life difficulties or others’ parasites will be able to overwrite or distort that harmony.

There is definitely some sort of happiness by volunteering I know it a bit from myself and I know it more through my brothers Fadi and Chadi who give their time for The Faith and Light organization in Syria which takes on itself the responsibility of caring for the mentally unfortunate children and also from my other brother Somar who joined with friends built a social community for the Kirellos church in Kassaa - Damascus, a community that won him a devoted wife. That happiness of doing something and see the results right away in an atmosphere that is much different from the corporates’, an atmosphere where competition was replaced by cooperation, pyramidal hierarchy was replaced with all-for-one-and-one-for-all spirit and where the goal is the person not the dollar.
Way to go Elias, you made me proud.