Life will unfold the way it needs to.
I'm sure everyone who reads, this has knowingly or unknowingly heard these lines before. One is, "Everything happens for a reason," and the other is, "Whatever can happen, will happen." I had read them too, somewhere in books and conversations, and this second one is often associated with Murphy's Law. Back then, I only understood it as a concept, just another law to study and move on from. But now, I think I understand it differently.
Life happens. And it happens to all of us eventually.
Sometimes it arrives quietly, and sometimes all at once. Sometimes it gives us things we prayed for, and sometimes it takes away things we thought we could never survive without. And no matter how carefully we plan, overthink, or try to protect ourselves from uncertainty, life still continues moving in its own direction.
I think that's what scares us the most. The fact that there are things beyond our control.
We think everything is about our choices, and sometimes we blame circumstances or other people, but in reality, there are only a few things truly within our control. The rest moves in its own direction, beyond us, and we are simply moving through it.
We carry imaginary conversations in our heads before they even happen. We fear endings before beginnings have fully arrived. We try so hard to hold life together perfectly, as if control itself could save us from heartbreak, uncertainty, or change.
But eventually, life humbles all of us in some way. And strangely, maybe that is not always a bad thing.
Sometimes I sit and wonder why certain things happened to me the way they did, but maybe they had to happen that way for me to understand something I could not have learned otherwise. And now, when I look back at some of the hardest moments of my life, I realise many of them taught me things comfort never could.
I think we human beings exhaust themselves trying to predict everything before it arrives. We want guarantees before we begin. We want certainty before we trust. We want reassurance that nothing painful will happen before we allow ourselves to fully live.
But life was never meant to be experience that way. Because some things will happen no matter how much we fear them. And some beautiful things will arrive no matter how impossible they once seemed. That is the strange and fragile beauty of being alive.
And maybe the most comforting part of all this is realising that even when life happens to us, we also happen to life. We shape it too. Through our choices, our softness, our resilience, our willingness to begin again even after becoming tired. Every experience leaves something inside us, but we also leave pieces of ourselves inside every experience we survive. How beautiful it is, isn't it?
And sometimes, some events happen where I want to believe that yes, this is a sign from the universe that this is happening for a reason or for a purpose. Because deep down, we want to trust that life is more than coincidence. That there is meaning hidden even inside confusion. That some things are unfolding in ways we cannot fully understand yet, but someday, when we look back they will make sense in the quietest and most beautiful way.
That life isn't just a loop of events. There is belief in it and there are lots of prayers behind the life we wish for and admire so deeply.
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.~ Mary Oliver
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