Sometimes your problems are bigger in your mind than they are in reality
Your job is to focus on what you can control and leave what you can’t control to Allah.
How to tell if you've found your "thing"
- You instantly absorb anything you read on the subject
- You stay up late working on it (without effort)
- You can perform better on it at 60% than others at 100%
- It doesn't drain you, but rather gives you energy
- You end up doing it without being prompted
Play to you, work to others. Don't waste your time dedicating yourself to something you're bad at. Work hard at games you're uniquely suited to win. You can and should take every unfair advantage you have access to
A man who reads old books cannot be fully captured by modern stupidity. He has dead kings, prophets, poets, killers, saints, drunks, generals, and madmen whispering in his bloodstream. The feed has no chance against this.
for some people, life doesn't truly begin until they're 26-30. The way we romanticize and obsess over youth is super harmful. Your life is not over at 21, i promise you. it's just beginning.
Umar ibn Al-khattab رحمه اللّه said:
"No amount of guilt can change the past & no amount of worrying can change the future.
Go easy on yourself for the outcome of all affairs is determined by the decree of Allah.
If something is meant to go elsewhere, it will never come on your way, but if it is yours by destiny, from you it cannot flee (and you cannot flee from it)."
[Imam Bayhagi رحمه اللّه Asmã was Sifät page 243]