I could imagine building a future here and I made a real effort to integrate myself.
This was certainly the case for Guilherme Leal, co-founder and co-chairman of Natura, Brazil's largest cosmetics, fragrance and toiletries maker, when he collapsed with a heart attack at the age of 37. Leal, a billionaire as a result of his stake in Natura, tells the Guardian how "the pain helped me to integrate myself" and spurred the realisation that all of life is interconnected.
After attempting to join and integrate myself in STEM organizations of the school, I realized that socially, by virtue of who I was, my place was not there.
"My first task will be to integrate myself with my new team-mates and to help those around me to grow and to build with them a strong team.
And so when you find that out you're like, holy cow, the only thing limiting my growth is how fast I can launch, and how I integrate myself into that community or that city".
"Throughout 2012 I was able to fully integrate myself into the team, both through the FP1 sessions I ran at a number of tracks that were then new to me, and as reserve driver, fully embedded with the team throughout the season.
He told Wired Magazine "The idea was to integrate myself, quite literally, into an audio and visual presentation of the album,".
Always, the International Paralympic Committee IPCC) looms large, but I know I will integrate myself into that esteemed membership before too long.
I felt I had to really integrate myself into this world to develop a true sense of place for the film.
"This bookstore was kind of a steppingstone to … integrate myself into the local community," a customer named Jessica Brown told NPR last month, describing Seattle's Mockingbird Books.
At night, immersed in my new exile, I force myself to adapt, to integrate myself but also to take some distance from the person I used to be.
