The Adversities In Life

Adversities In Life
I felt like what one feels when one gets up on a Saturday and knows there is only a couple of hours for the week to end. There is a lot of work to be done, and the time available is so short. I wish there was a way I could possibly extend the week, but there is no way I can do anything about the paucity of time available. I did make a judicious use of my time during the week that has gone by, but I shall ever be unable to do anything about the sequence of events that unfolded before me. They have been quite instrumental in propelling a typical dissonance into me about the way events have unfolded before me. I am still behind schedule.

There has been a very slow pace at which events have unfolded before me and this has been the principal cause of the dissonance. The only relief in this case is the realisation that all that is happening with me is a part of a pre-planned destiny. It is a pre-scripted movie that I have been watching. Everything right from the first shot to the climax was preplanned and even rehearsed in an atmosphere unknown to me. The climax of the movie is yet to be shot, but I have a fair idea of what the climax is going to be like.

I have had a fair idea of my destiny. I knew all this was going to happen with me. I knew everything is to happen with me at a very late point of time, but I couldn’t do anything positive about it. There is no way I could possibly prepare for it. A peep into the future that I had had in the past didn’t give me any way to prepare for it. There has only been an apathy gathering pace within me at my helplessness over the way events have been unfolding. I can’t do anything but wait for events in my life to unfold.

You can never prepare for or against what is written in your destiny, you can only be a part of it, and be a mute spectator to the events that unfold before you.  I wish I could do something to help myself out of the situation I find myself in, but I can’t. This helplessness has further propelled a lot of negative feelings within me with respect to the flow of time. I wish I could pause the flow of time, I wish there was a way I could re-write my destiny. I wish I could push the values of the climax to the final shots. I badly wish I didn’t have to wait for the final shots to see the flag of victory being hoisted. I know I shall shine out of the crowd, and I shall do it in a different way from that followed by my peers. And I also know everything will happen at a very late point of time.

The only problem is that I shall not be able to do anything to prepare for the climax. This is largely because I don’t have an idea of the time when the climax is to be staged. I wish I could shout out loud in jubilation of having reached a destination that is hidden from me, but it is where I have been headed for ever since I was born. I haven’t’ reached the destination yet, and yet I have a faint idea of what it is to be like. I only have to wait for things to occur, and there is absolutely nothing I can do except wait for events to unfold by themselves.

I didn’t have an idea of the importance of reaching the destination, or I would have certainly done my best to push myself towards the destination. I had a faint idea of what the destination is going to be like, but I didn’t have an inkling of the importance it is going to have in my life, and the importance of my efforts in reaching the destination. I didn’t know getting there was going to be so tough.

On second thoughts, there is very little I could have possibly done had I had even a vague idea of the importance of reaching the destination. I did have a vague idea of it, but I couldn’t have done anything because of the pre-scripted drama that was being staged.  Getting to the destination has been made so important and tough for me while it is quite easy for others to get to the end of the road. Life is never easy for anyone, I know, but I do feel bad about the time I wasted in useless pursuits. I wish my life had followed a route similar to the one followed by everyone else around me. The incumbent problem of getting to the destination would not have been so big.

There would still have been a lot of problems in my life, but they would have been of a different sort. I wonder if the difference can be appreciated by me had it been presented in a form different from the one it has been presented. Had my life followed a normal course, the problems before me would have been of a different sort, and the different sort would have been in a better position to handle the problems that would have been before me at that time.

I am sure I am well equipped to handle all the adversities in life that are before me today. I only have to realise the potential. Allah showers only those adversities which can be dealt with in an efficient manner by us. When Allah gives us any adversities, He also gives us the power to bear through all adversities before us. I am sure I shall be able to survive the onslaught of adversities I face today, and I shall not be cowed down upon by the set of adversities I shall have to face tomorrow or even the day after.