Every couple of years, we enter a new phase in our lives.
Starting from a clot of blood, growing into an embryo and then into a fetus.
Bringing new life into the world, we are born as our mother's precious little angels. Infant to toddler. Bringing more chaos into the home.
Then you start school, share your life with your friends and teachers. Learning what life is really all about. Letters and numbers growing into sentences, paragraphs, and then stories and tales of our past, present and future.
Past the wonderful cheerful childhood years, onto the hormone surges of teenage life. Where noone can understand you. The irritation, the frustration.
Before you completely recover from the insanity of teenage life, you're put in college. Building your life, your career. It is here that you learn to become a little saner, more mature (in most cases, there are always exceptions). You can almost see into your future, where you want to be, what you want to be doing, etc.
For those who find their life partner, marriage is a whole new beginning. A new life, and a new family member. A whole bunch of new titles.
And then, with the blessings of Allah, you will be given the opportunity to start this cycle over. You get to carry the next generation. To make your contribution. And play a whole new part - that of a mother. A role that is packed with excitement, happiness, joy, its own share of sorrows, frustrations, and disappointments.
I am now, standing at such a junction. Standing on the familiar cozy side of the portal. Once I step into it, cross over to the other side, there is no looking back. Its going to be a whole new world. One that I am not familiar with. One that I will have to train myself to endure.
Every step of the way, in our own ways, we are all fighters. Who have fought past every complication, and every hurdle that has stood in our way. Everytime our life jumps into a new chapter, we have to shake off our fears of the unknown, we have to leave our cozy little nests, we have to pull ourselves together and make that leap. Its like the first day of school, all over again.
By the grace of Allah, we shall all make it to the end with flying colors. Be it our end, today or tomorrow, what matters is that you do your very best up until that last breath. May Allah bless us all to be successful in all of our struggles in this life and the hereafter.
