Life Is Not A Race

leemah1(72)
Published in
GEMS
Words
653
Reading
3 min
Listen
Play
19h

Lately, I have been thinking about how much life can change our plans, there are things I used to believe about life that I don't believe anymore. There are people I thought would always be around who are no longer part of my life. There are plans I was so sure would work out, but somehow things went in a completely different direction and honestly, some of those things hurt.

Pixabay

I have had days when I felt like I was doing everything I could and still getting nowhere. Days when I questioned myself and wondered if I was really making progress. Sometimes you can be trying so hard, but when you look around, it feels like everyone else is moving ahead while you are still standing in the same place, I have felt that way more than once but one thing I am slowly learning is that life is not always a bed of rose

Everyone will get to do there thing at each assigned time, life is not a race. Just because someone is achieving something before me doesn't mean you are failing or I will not be able to do it. Just because the journey looks different doesn't mean it is going nowhere, I won't put so much pressure on myself just because of other people's lives I'm seeing from the outside.

Their success, their achievements, their happy moments won't stop my own from coming because I don't see everything they had to go through to get to they are and that means nobody probably see ours too., I can honestly say that some of my hardest moments taught me things that comfortable times never could

In this life, Disappointments is inevitable I just have to be more careful about who I trust. Difficult situations will definitely happen I just have to be stronger than I am right before it does because some experiences will even forced you to understand your own worth.

I am not saying I have everything figured out now. I don't, I still have a lot ofl things I'm worry about, there are days when I feel discouraged, there are questions I don't have answers to yet. But I am learning not to let one bad day convince me that my whole life is going badly, that has been a big lesson for me.

This life itself is a lesson, everyday we got to live teach us one thing or the other so I am also learning to appreciate small progress. Maybe I haven't reached where I want to be yet, but I am not where I used to be either and sometimes, that is enough reason to be grateful.

These days, I just want a little more peace. I don't want to spend my life trying to prove something to everybody, I don't want to constantly compare my life with someone else's. I want to grow, make better decisions, become a better person, and enjoy the journey while I am at it, I want to choose peace when I can, I want to choose growth even when it is uncomfortable. And when things don't go the way I planned, I want to learn from them instead of allowing them to completely break me.

I don't know what the next few months or years will look like, nobody really does butI still have hope.I believe there are better days ahead, even if I can't see them clearly right now. I believe some things take time. I believe that not every delay is a denial and not every closed door means the end.

So, for now, I am just taking things one day at a time. Life isn't about having everything figured out. Sometimes, it is simply about having the courage to keep going while you figure it our, story isn't finished yet.

Thank for checking on my post and have a wonderful day

Life Is Not A Race | Ecency