STOP CHASING, START GROWING

We always seem to be in a rush. We want everything to happen as we want it, when we want it and exactly how we want. But guess what, life doesn’t work that way and the sooner we acknowledge that, the better it will help us navigate through life with ease. You know how you just expect the worse from everything even while working your hardest? Nothing catches you by surprise anymore. You will only feel happy when something goes right or exactly as you wish it would. But then, the moment you start expecting life to always go your way all the time, when you are faced with a certain challenge, you will only keep seeing yourself as a failure or someone that isn’t doing something right.

The truth is, at that time, life is mostly trying to teach you to cultivate a virtue called patience. Patience is one thing that most people lack. I do too. But in the face of setbacks and delays, we are taught how to be patient and resilient. We are able to see things differently and think differently as well. But when things keep going the way we want them to go and how we want them to go, we might easily start thinking it’s because we have it all figured out but that’s not the truth at all. It is probably because that’s a time for us to shine but then, when it comes to that waiting stage, that’s when you start realizing that it was never your power or your accurate strategies.

Most people see waiting time as wasted time but the truth is, waiting time is a free time given to invest our time in something we couldn’t have normally invested our time in. And this is the point when you can either choose to grow your knowledge in something meaningful, waste time thinking about your losses or spend it doing things that are not important. This waiting period is a time to accumulate as many experiences as you can in different areas. It’s not a time to sit down or sleep doing nothing. While waiting for that particular thing you so want, you have to put yourself out there excelling in other areas even though they seem irrelevant to what you are actually looking for.

Don’t be in a rush for anything that seems to be taking so much time to come. Take your time and look around you for other opportunities because those other opportunities might be what will take you to the destination you which to get to. Life is always going to seem like it’s moving fast and you will always get to that point when you feel like everything is not worth it and you also feeling worthless but all that is because you want it as fast as possible but when you learn to be patient with yourself and everything else no matter how others are moving fast, you will start seeing how things just keep falling in place at the appropriate time.

Thank you for reading through. 💜