Life, Relationship, Heart Clinic

While growing up, our dreams were born gently. They begin to form in our minds as pictures of the future, painted with hope, belief, and endless possibilities. As children, we imagine becoming everything our hearts desire. Setting timeframe for almost everything. We were so certain of our plans, that life would be kind, and our effort will be enough. That the future is open and bright, forgiving, and full of promises. But, life has its own ways of intervening in human's plans. Life's interventions rarely arrive with sudden delays or changes, no. Instead, it comes quietly, through unanswered prayers, missed opportunities, and amongst others, responsibilities that arrived far too early. The truth is, dreams don’t usually disappear or fade away overnight, no. They slowly wear down. Bills replace visions. Survival replaces ambitions. The energy we once used to imagine a better tomorrow is now redirected toward getting through today. Dreams that once felt close begin to feel unreali...

  Have you ever experienced a moment where your effort didn’t match the outcome? May I ask what that experience taught you about life and resilience? While we were kids, we grew up believing life is a sequence of steps; Work hard, be good, follow the "set rules", and success will follow. But the truth is that reality is messier. You can do "everything right", study diligently, act kindly, make responsible choices, and still face setbacks, rejections, and disappointments. Meanwhile, someone else may do everything “wrong,” take shortcuts, ignore the "said rules", and still fall into success as if fortune guided them by the hand. That will definitely make us feel that life is unfair. But the truth is that life is not mathematics. It’s art. It is chaos wrapped in grace. It’s timing, opportunity, intuition, courage, luck and grace.  Fact check: Success is not a reward exclusively given to the deserving, and failure is not punishment for being insufficient. Some...