Focus on your path, trust the process even when you can't see the bigger picture yet, and remember that in the end, it's all scripted beautifully.

I went outside my hostel just now to fill my water bottle. Upon getting there, I found two options available under the tank. One is a big controllable pipe which fills water quickly, and the other is a small tap pipe whose control has been broken and pours water slowly - it's like 1/10 of the big pipe's flow.

I met a guy filling his bucket under the big pipe, while I used the small tap pipe. Despite meeting him there first, I filled mine and left before his got filled.

And then something came to my mind: his bucket will contain 12-20 of my bottles, but as long as the goal is getting the water filled, I achieved mine faster because my container is smaller.

Sometimes, this happens in life. When someone next to you reaches their goals or receives rewards while yours is still a work in progress, it doesn't always mean they are better than you or more favored than you. You all have different containers to fill, to serve different purposes.

Keep your eyes on your ball, game, path, and let it succeed in its own time.



The Art of Just Being

Lately, I've been thinking about my life while listening to Poor Charlie's Almanack, after reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. It's been an educative experience for me. But normally, my mind sometimes just clicks on things and tries to make sense of it, mostly without an effort directed to it.

I learned from the tafsir of Surah Al-Asr that in the end, humans are at loss.

Like everything we are trying to be, have, do will all be gone with time, but yet we make them the core reason for our being.

Of course it's important to struggle for a cause in this world, but learning the art of detachment while aiming at success and remembering our Creator and knowing we all gonna leave someday is important too.

And then looking at nature, I realize most things 'just be' - not trying to be anything else than what they've been made to do.

Feeling like everything has been scripted.

Sometimes things go how you plan, sometimes they don't, and then something else comes up.

Sometimes you won't understand why what happened to you actually happened at that moment, but after some time and even years, you're able to figure out the reason why what happened then happened, and it's all good.



The Freedom in Acceptance

Taking a look at nature, I feel free and just do my thing to become the best me and help others do the same, enjoy life in the good way and let it be.

Trees don't try to be anything other than trees. Rivers flow where they need to flow. There's this effortless authenticity in nature that we often complicate as humans. Yet within that "just being," there's still growth, adaptation, purpose.

It's like holding two truths at once: caring deeply about your work and purpose, but not being consumed by it. Striving while surrendering. Caring while letting go.

So next time you see someone filling their bucket while you're filling your bottle, remember you both have different containers, different purposes, different timings. Your journey is yours. Their journey is theirs.

Focus on your path, trust the process even when you can't see the bigger picture yet, and remember that in the end, it's all scripted beautifully.

Just be. And let it be.

From someone who’s been there: You are not alone, and every step you take counts ♥️.