It has been quite an eventful month: both good and bad. As I look back, I see two solid years of my life turning things completely 180 degree. I believe in so much I never did and learnt a great deal I never had the patience to. I've met people who have taught me some beautiful lessons.
- Trauma is the biggest catalyst of change
- Life and it's components will add to your difficulties and complicate things anyway. Just make sure YOU are not complicating your own life or creating and choosing your own difficulties.
- Opinions don't always matter. There is no way mine is right over yours or vice versa. We think we've got it all figured out, we haven't. We are not gods.
- Empathy is a gift.. one I wish we were all born with
- Allah is not just yours or mine. So before you wish someone ill just know that He is on their side too.
- We claim to love Him and we often tend to hate people. Quite a contradiction. How can we claim to love Him and not love His creation?
- Forgive quickly and easily.
- Pain that people inflict us with or we cause them is the most difficult to eradicate. There is no solace in our prayers, fasts or any act that claims us religious if we have no sense of someone else's suffering.
- Spying, not minding our own business, listening to somebody's private conversation is not the same as "staying alert or informed" picking up pieces of the story that only benefit us, not admitting our own fault, deriving joy from somebody's pain, taking pride in revenge are not the same as "standing up for or defending your rights".
- Everyone loves a good show and a story. Love all, show everyone kindess but know who truly feels your pain.
- You are not just a doctor or a dentist. He has made you far more than that. Those of us who seek our identity only by our profession will somehow always be tunnel-visioned
- There are five phases of our life and amongst those the phase of consolidation matters the most.
- It's important to expand the empire of our achievements, conquer new domains, learn new things yet it is most important to CONSOLIDATE the empire. Alexander failed because he never consolidated his empire in his passion to conquer more lands. Likewise, we will gather experiences, achievements and abilities.
to be continued
