The hard ride

Lessons in life never come the easy way, and I can’t be more grateful for that. I passed through the toughest most emotional years of my life, and that gave my life a motto that I say in every bad situation “maybe it’s a blessing in disguise” and  عسى ان تكرهوا امرا لعله خيرا لكم" " .. Therefore, It gave me an insight to see the light in every tunnel or at least feel its existence.

A friend once wrote “In life, you pick your own battles”.. and that line has been stuck in my head ever since. Every single day, you face different people and different situations, it’s up to you to perceive it as a battle or let it go by smoothly, It’s up to you to surround your day with battles of gossip, envy, and shallow hateful people, or make your battle about your future, work, and motivation. The first kind of battles leaves you empty, stressed out and in-vein, the second kind on the other hand, as much as it burns out your energy, it always fills you up with more fuel to get you going to the next destination, and as much as you have to race around, take stops and face dead ends, eventually, you’ll know that it’s worth the ride.

In this road-trip that you’re taking in life, many passengers along the way will want to ride with you, some for the luxury of your ride or maybe to enjoy some good music along the way and dance around then step off on the next stop, while others may ride with you and you’ll maybe hit it off over some common interest or click over a similar heartache, but as soon as your car breaks down or your tire blows, you’ll see them running out faster than your fuel, looking for another ride with no troubles; and that will leave you feeling lonely and consumed, you’ll take a stop at a lousy motel and cry your ass out there for days, and that’s okay. 

But you’ll eventually wake up one morning, and laugh at how silly that seems, how you took a detour from your dream just because “one” person didn’t appreciate you or is just purely an ass. And you realize that the problem was never in you, and you’ll always meet such crabs in your life, it just depends on whether you’d let them in or not. So you dress up like a boss, get your shit together and ride that car like you never did before, giving the middle finger to every fucker dressed as a saint along the way, because you can see the black cloud around their heads no matter how white they tried to appear.

So, never take shit from no one, trust your guts, don’t take things for granted, and appreciate all the good in your life. set your goals, swim against the tides and catch memories along every station, save a seat for the ones who can draw the line with you and can complete the dots, they may be few and they may come late, but they’re definitely worth the wait.