The Ultimate Path

For the last 4 years, I have been dreaming about things that I want to have in life. But then what I did was to put preliminary conditions only after which I allow myself to do them. There was no inherent reason to put those conditions before the ultimate path. But I did. And most of us do the same. We dream about the life we want. And having sorted it out, we make a short-term plan which will eventually allow us to walk on our dream path. By doing this, we are making distance from our ultimate path. Not because we don’t want the destination that path will lead us to. But because we are insecure about whether it will be worth making the utmost priority. We consider it to be worth following but not now.

We all have been postponing the very things we want to do the most. Not because there is someone physically or mentally stopping us, but because we believe we are not ready yet. And then as we follow our short-term plans, there actually comes a physical or mental constraint which eventually becomes a hurdle in the way to it. Eventually we use the ultimate reason for not following the ultimate path. We become the victim of the requirements of life.

This circle only stops for people who stop using their ultimate path as a distant game altogether. Those who make it urgent enough to do it now or never at all. I am constantly afraid of missing out on my ultimate path because I didn’t follow it at the time when I had the most freedom to do it.

I hope Allah guides me to take the courageous steps toward my ultimate path. And I eventually lend myself to a place where there is slightest regret for the past actions. Regret really is the worst, it eats your present, your future hopes everything there is left of you.

With the current awareness of how much regret can hurt your self-esteem and present and future. I also tried to do the same. But then I realized the only way to minimize regret is not by thinking critically but by thinking intuitively. Only when you allow your energy to flow in the direction in which it wants to flow, we wouldn't regret it after its flow.