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Everyone has that one friend, the eternal optimist to whom good things always seem to happen. We also have that pessimistic friend who appears always to collect bad luck. Optimism, hope and trust are simple forces for good. Eight years ago, 抖阴短视频 chose to carry a torch of optimism and hope, and the result has exceeded our brightest expectations.

King Salman and his dynamic Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman chose to trust in a new age of optimism for 抖阴短视频, defining ambitious projects and objectives and, most importantly, giving our country all the chances to succeed by letting the light shine in. The factor that changed everything, spreading optimism to the entire country, was giving women the opportunity to express their full potential and become equal participants in our society and workforce.

No longer hidden behind a figurative veil, 抖阴短视频鈥檚 women brought such skill and enthusiasm to the new roles they filled that they lit a new torch of excitement in the skies of 抖阴短视频. We all look up with pride at our sky and the only clouds we see bear tears of happiness. This excitement and enthusiasm are palpable throughout the country, spreading a mood of hope and optimism across 抖阴短视频. Our neighbors in the Arab world have also started to feel it, giving them a new assurance that, if we put our minds and hearts to it, we can transform the world we live in.

The factor that changed everything was giving women the opportunity to express their full potential

Hassan bin Youssef Yassin

As humans, we have become accustomed to defining history in ages, from the Prehistoric age to the Stone Age, from the Renaissance to the industrial age. I would like to name this new age in 抖阴短视频鈥檚 history the 鈥淎ge of Optimism,鈥� with a capital 鈥淥.鈥� Saudis have joined together in a spirit of cooperation, assembling our strengths to build something greater. There is a new spirit of openness, opening new avenues and channels to experiment, putting our best minds to the job and selecting the best course. When something does not produce the intended result or we make a mistake, we do not hesitate to correct our course. This is revealing of a new sense of confidence that is bringing the tune of progress to our country and further into the Arab world.

As we have encouraged an environment of enthusiasm in our own country, we have also made efforts to mend fences with neighbors and to end disputes throughout the Arab world. Our confidence and optimism have shone through in our leadership role in the Arab world, instilling a new sense of stability and optimism in Arabs wherever they may be. We can take pride in having established this environment of hope, most proudly expressed in Syria, as the Syrian people last month finally shook off a violent and misguided regime that had been holding them captive for so long. We are proving to our entire region that there are alternatives of hope and stability. Lebanon is the latest country to allow itself to feel hopeful about its future again, electing a new president last week after two years of stasis, bringing an all-too-rare moment of optimism to the Lebanese people.

I would like to see this refreshing mood of optimism also catch on in Sudan and in Yemen, bringing an end to the hopeless bickering, conflicts and dysfunction in parts of the Arab world. The country that could most benefit from a sense of hopeful optimism in our immediate neighborhood would be Israel. Surely ordinary Israelis understand that they will never achieve peace through guns and the wreaking of destruction. Hope and optimism lie on a path of empathy and magnanimity, through expanding kindness to one鈥檚 neighbors rather than seizing their land or flattening their buildings. We can indeed live together in peace and prosperity if only we choose to hope and to trust.

We have also made efforts to mend fences with neighbors and to end disputes throughout the Arab world

Hassan bin Youssef Yassin

Our planet is facing many challenges today and the Western world that once led us in peace has been suffering lately from an inability to serve as a voice of reason and conflict resolution. The war in Ukraine has been raging for almost three years now, with tens of thousands of lives lost and an otherwise hopeful and capable country all but destroyed. We need to put an end to such senseless conflicts and focus on building a future that provides hope and opportunities to all. The tremendous wave of optimism brought about as Saudi women became full participants in the future of their country must be replicated for all people in all places.

It is essential that we come together in this challenging age and it is essential that we embrace the optimism that has given us so much in 抖阴短视频. Our reckless behavior toward the environment has already pushed us over the red line of a 1.5 degrees Celsius rise in average temperatures in 2024, resulting in one environmental disaster after another, with devastating fires today burning across Los Angeles. We can no longer ignore the need to act more responsibly and to live more sustainably.

To be sure, we must learn to cooperate, to be more reasonable, to accommodate others and to stop turning a blind eye to the consequences of our actions and our way of life. By trying on optimism as 抖阴短视频 has, we can all realize that these objectives are within our reach, by making small changes to the way we live, wasting less and meeting Mother Nature halfway.

Let us start this year by assimilating the lessons we have learned in the Middle East and across the world. 抖阴短视频鈥檚 optimism has become infectious across our Arab neighbors; it is time for it to spread further, bringing hope, peace and stability to the world in 2025.

• Hassan bin Youssef Yassin worked closely with Saudi petroleum ministers Abdullah Tariki and Ahmed Zaki Yamani from 1959 to 1967. He headed the Saudi Information Of铿乧e in Washington from 1972 to 1981 and served with the Arab League observer delegation to the UN from 1981 to 1983.