Sometimes, our timeline doesn't pan out the way we want. Plans change, paths derail, dreams remain dreams, hopes and expectations collapse, and hearts get broken.
The timeline fallacy, where people create a mental checklist of milestones they believe they "should" achieve by a certain age. Where they plan their entire life down to the last detail. Where the innate desire to control takes over - until life throws you a curveball.
The quiet belief that life should unfold according to plan. We draft blueprints for decades we've yet to live — but we forget: Allah is the best of planners.
And how does one cope when things don't go as planned, when life refuses to follow the script?
You let go. You let go.
As easy as it sounds-and just as hard.
You release what needs to be released, embracing the impermanence of all things. You accept what needs to be accepted, recognizing the limits of your will. You focus on what you can control, what lies within your power. And you forgive.
Because at the end of the day, Allah knows what's best for us, for you, for me.
“…But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you;
and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you.
And Allah Knows, while you know not.” (2:216)
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