We all face obstacles. We think we are on the
right track but we then realize we have chosen the complete wrong path. We are
enthusiastic hard-working by nature, but our support system gradually fails
when we need them the most. We are just about to make significant progress and
achievement towards your dream but suddenly everything
collapse.
Tenacious as we may be, we all have our
breaking points. But didn't we have a good reason for committing to achieving
our dreams in the first place? Odds are, we still want to achieve those dreams;
we just stopped believing we could achieve them because our attempts have yet
to yield results on the ground.
Let’s take a step backwards, would our lives be
better if we gave up on our dreams? This may not sound motivational, but
sometimes giving up is actually a good thing to achieve something greater. Sometimes
I set a completely unrealistic goal and its pursuit is filling me with a
constant set of inadequacy and anxiety. We could easily use this as a
justification to delude ourselves, so one should think about it very carefully.
One of my biggest problems is that I do not
like responsibility. There are tons of things that I like to do, but I resist
because I do not want the power to influence, impact, hurt or even disappoint myself
and other people. That does not mean that I do not have dreams. It is that I am
scared of what achieving them will entail. Great power comes with greater
responsibility, but also brings even greater rewards. If I play safe, I won't
hurt or disappoint anyone, but also I won't help or inspire anyone and equally
important, myself. The comfort zone is beautiful, but nothing great grows
there.
We all need to get out of our comfort zones
every once in a while. I often think I may disappoint other people … or afraid
of who they perceive or judge me. In reality, no one ever judges us like we
judge ourselves. The closest people will disappoint us more than our fear to
disappoint them, and we all grow and learn through the process of striving,
regardless of what we attain. If we don’t keep going, we will never
know how far we could have gone and we will miss out on being the person we’d
become through the effort itself. If we do keep going, well, it’s like
this quote: “Shoot for the moon, for even if you miss you’ll land among the
stars.”
One must remember that Allah has perfect timing
for everything. Never early and never late. But it takes a little patience and
a lot of faith. Yes ... There will always thousand days when you feel like
giving up ... But unless you are 10000% sure, then don't!!! There will always
be extremely tough days when you feel like you don't have what it takes and it’s
better to settle for something less ... But you 10000% do!!! And hell yes …
There will be dozens of other days when everything seems to be falling apart ...
But they won't. You got to fight hard and follow your guts to achieve what you
deserve and worked your hard to attain!!! -_-
And it is when you are at this lowest point,
that you are faced with a choice. You can stay there at the bottom, until you
drown. Or you can gather pearls and rise back up. You got to have faith in
Allah's plan for you and trust the process. You must know that things will work
out for the good and there will be days when you look back and say
'Alhamdulillah … I am glad I didn't give up!' :)
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