She insisted that it was a phase that he would grow out of. All he needed was for them to bear with him.
She believed whatever demons that were driving him to harm himself he would eventually conquer.
But, despite the old lady’s fondest wishes, the young man would not change; didn’t seem concerned by his family’s concern.
Wasn’t interested in being better.
We are told to teach our children not to quit………as if there is shame in quitting what isn’t working.
Nothing you do is small or insignificant.
Even if no-one knows about it;
even if it doesn’t make the headlines;
even when someone else takes the credit for it.
It’s a shame, really. This is what life and families have become. Let me paint you a picture. Mother walks
It goes to show you that no matter how far ahead we perceive ourselves on our enlightment journey, how far above being bothered with petty superficial matters such as these we are, we all (still sometimes) fall victim to our egos.
When we shed old unhelpful beliefs that do nothing for our lives we find by the grace of Allah, new opportunities open up, we meet new people, our mindsets improve and even our health improves!
Eid wasn’t Eid for us that year, just a lot of tears shed in two cities, continents apart, at the bedside of loved ones tested by trauma.
Why live a complicated life when a simpler one is available to all of us?
Remember simpler does not equal boring
Was life not supposed to have happened?
Had we believed that in order for us to realise the dreams we had wanted as teenagers everything was supposed to stay exactly the same?
We all know of that one person who will complain all the way about how much he hates his job, his racist boss, the commute, his deadbeat co-workers and yet will stay there for fifteen plus years. It never occurs to him, perhaps, that there is always a choice. For as long as we are alive and not in prison somewhere, then we have a choice.
I could have been the last person or the only person on this earth.
It is a humbling feeling this: to look around and see no living creature; to see no sign of ‘civilisation’ .
