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Wherever You Are, Be Grateful
Sitting right now on my desk, the various ideas to pen down are all very clear in my mind, but very difficult to put down on paper. I started writing about marriage, and then quickly decided not to write about it. I wanted to write about marriage from the Islamic perspective but I quickly realized I did not have enough knowledge to go on. But then I thought of comparing a marriage to having a startup company. Maybe that would be more interesting, that again I decided against.
And write now, having no real topic to write about. I decided to write about how it is okay for things to not go as planned sometimes. When I do not have an immediate article to write about, I normally take a 10 minutes break to let my mind just relax and then write about what I come up with afterwards. For today, the 10 minutes is not producing an idea I can immediately pen down. And that is fine. Then I realized that maybe the story is not having a story at all.
Maybe sometimes, all we need is to appreciate ourselves as we are. To put in the little that we can no matter what and seeing what comes out of it. Maybe everyday is not meant to be our day to shine, but what we do in those times is what matters the most. I am grateful for days I do not have what to write because it makes me appreciate every single day I have had something to write about. Some days, I just have to force myself to stop…
