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Hey Assalam aleykum
If not Muslim, hey buddy!
It may be one of those rough times in your life. Perhaps you are undergoing a financial collapse, a family conflict, a heart break, bad marriage, betrayal, identity crisis, quarter life crisis, mid-life crisis...you name it. Perhaps you are just feeling lost and confused. Perhaps you don't exactly understand why you came to this world. Perhaps you don't feel your need existing in this world. Perhaps you think this pain is too much to bear. Perhaps you wish you could disappear. Perhaps you can't stay hungry anymore. Perhaps you have no strength to work one more day. Perhaps you are undergoing writer's block. Perhaps things are just not working out. Perhaps you feel the very urgent need to explode. You feel low, stressed and depressed. But perhaps...all this is not as bad as it may seem.
One thing for sure; you are going to over-come this and it is going to remain as a memory. Perhaps a bad memory but it will all be in the past and what's in the past no longer defines us.
Be rest assured, there is nothing abnormal in the kind of pain we live in. Everyone is experiencing some kind of battle, maybe not at the same time as you do but they surely do. Don't see happy faces full of smiles, walking on the shores of the beach and going for shopping sprees and you start thinking 'why the hell is my life like this? And not like that?' The only difference comes in how we deal with that pain. You are the one to choose whether you are going to let go of what is eating you up, whether you will forgive others and yourself and whether you will stand up after that terrible fall.
Sometimes too many things collapse at the same time especially when you are in your 20's. This is the time when just almost everything seems to be falling on your head. Identity crisis; you don't even know what you want in your life, betrayals; you start seeing the claws of the dearest people to you, University's chaotic life, financial problems, Career search that never ends, transition into marriage life etc etc. This could be like "hello! Welcome to the real world" call. You start seeing truths you'd never want to know but you are forced to stare into that horrible reality for some time and maybe for a longer time than you expected. But hey! Don't despair.
I am just going to tell you 3 things that I hope you can take note of.
1.Dear, you are not alone. You are definitely not alone in this. Perhaps you consider yourself such an awful person or you feel so lonely and don't expect anyone to even cry if you died this moment. Maybe you think that you are better off six feet under with only soil to hug you. Do know this; people do love you. It may be one person, three, ten or even a dozen it doesn't matter the number. What matters is that this person or these people can cross oceans for your sake. However many your flaws may be, these people truly and sincerely care for you. Some even look up to you, they probably even consider you their mentor and role model while you are just not aware of it. Do know that to someone out there, you are really needed in this life. Your existence is crucial for them so don't let the sadness sweep you off your feet forever. Don't disappoint them by letting yourself sink in that wavy ocean. They need you to stand up NOW. You are Needed.
2.You are allowed to feel the pain. It is just a phase of life. It is okay to experience it and embrace it. Just don't allow yourself to stay too long in the darkness. Cry, mourn, talk it out if you need to but don't let it take over your life. Just take enough time to grieve but not too long to make sadness and loneliness a part of you. It is all about learning how to stand up after that great fall. You can do it
3.I'd like to give you an example here. Let's say you admire some girl out there (or the vice versa) and you really want her/him to talk to you. You want the attention. So what do you do? You create a problem for them so that they can come to ask for help from you. If you know that she can't fix a puncture you intentionally prick her car tires so that she may ask for your help. You know that she may ask for help from her other mates but sometimes no one can help except you. So she will come, eventually; sooner or later. Patience here is crucial. When this problem is over you make her computer crash. And then maybe put a virus in her flash disk. It could go on and on. It depends on how much you love that person. The more you love them the more you want them to talk to you and thus, the more difficult situations you create for them. It doesn't mean you want to harm them does it? It just means you love them so much that you would want them to know how much you are crucial in their lives. This is the same thing with God. Well not exactly but almost. God doesn't need your attention in fact, you need His! But when He loves one of His creations, He keeps testing them again and again. He knows you will go to your mother for assistance or your best friend or your neighbour but eventually you realize that no one can help you except Him. Now look at all these problems you are whining about. See how God loves you? See how much He wants you to talk to Him? See how much He wants you to seek help from Him? For He is more than ready to help you! He is just waiting for you to call unto Him. What are you waiting for buddy?!
With that said, please rub off those tears. Please be patient. Please have faith in God. Please believe in yourself. Do your best and let destiny take you places. Do not under-value yourself. Be happy and grateful with the good things in your life. Do not worry too much over what's going to happen next. Let the flow flow! Keep talking to Him and you'd be amazed what great plans He has for you. Better things coming buddy! In shaa Allah. Now don't let that smile fade from your face. You just don't know how pretty it makes you look!
