LIFE AND A FOREST

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Have you not wondered why nothing seems easy to do and not perfect after it has been done?
The beautiful geoid-shaped planet in which we live is itself not flat nor smooth, the journey into the earth from the womb was not with ease but stress, struggle and pain.
If the earth in which we live is neither smooth nor flat, and your journey into it was not easy and fun-filled, how would you expect your journey through it to be easy and fun-filled.
Not comparable to a bed of rose is life but a similitude of a forest of trees,
 A part of which is filled with flowers and trees full op promises; the sight of which delights the eyes,
 A part of it contains plain-looking trees; the sight of which makes no difference
While trees with thorns and thick barks makes up the rest; a scene one will not want repeated or prolonged.
When life like a forest turns it good side containing the flowers and delightful trees to us, this connotes when we are happy, successful in our endeavors, satisfied and at ease.
When it turns if fair side containing the plain looking trees to us, this is when we are in the borderline between being happy and sad, optimism and pessimism and at this point we are just ourselves.
When it turns the seemingly-bad side consisting of the trees with thorns and thick bark, this is when we are in an unfavourable condition, in debt, in a dilemma or sad, gloomy, etc
But the good, fair and the seemingly-bad sides of life are all spices of life.
From the desk of a creative Muslim
Abdultoyyib ibn Musediq


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