The Comfort Zone- Live Life Outside it!
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!
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’ .
Bullying is all too common, pervasive and dangerous and many young people, broken from being bullied, have either killed themselves or turned the gun on others.
So next time someone approaches you for advice, check your intention. Ask yourself: will I feel insulted if she doesn’t take it?
You don’t have to do anything by a certain time. Let the old aunties pushing you to get married because all your agemates are already married with kids let them know that your time is governed by Allah’s Will.
It is never too late to change your story, to shrug off the labels you have given yourself: you are only what you say to yourself you are.
Letting go means you are no longer in charge and not being in charge can leave you scared, vulnerable and uncertain. And who wants that?