The key is to hone that experience and prepare yourself for when the next one comes along, even if it’s months or years away, you can count on being ready to seize the moment when it matters most.
There are times when you are presented with an opportunity that can fundamentally alter the course of your life but it can only be actioned in that moment. Unless the pivot is made there and then, the world will not loop back to when it’s convenient for you.
You’ll miss out on these moments when you first come across them because there will be hesitation and unease with the risk-reward ratio of making that particular decision. You will doubt if you have what it takes to step up and take the leap.
The world does not reward potential. It rewards proof. Nobody cares how intelligent, talented, or visionary you believe yourself to be if your life produces no visible evidence of it.
“I have found that what we most fear, adversity itself, can be the best teacher, as humbling and painful as it can be, because one is rendered helpless and in need, which is, in fact, our true condition. Only when we have reached the end of our tether and are forced to give up our will do we see marvels.”
—Michael Sugich
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78 years ago, 800,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes. Britain made it possible.
Today, Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Britain made it possible.
78 years of the Nakba - and 78 years of British complicity in crimes against the Palestinian people.
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]