Grateful for the Pause: Growth, Laziness, and Moving Forward

 From Comfort to Commitment: Lessons from My Gap Years


During these gap years, I’ve had a lot of self-realizations—things I wasn’t able to understand in the first 25 years of my life.

I learned how to approach life and what truly matters in it.

Take a pause! Are you living a life designed and fixed by society!? Or you do have a realization of reality ? Purpose of your own life? True happiness what you want? 

Or your mind is fixed that true happiness is to achieve what society has already fixed for you and everyone 


What the world defines as success isn’t necessarily what has to be success for you as well. I became more spiritually connected to Allah. Earlier, I never even had the time to think about these things because I was always busy with studies. During these gap years, I reflected, understood myself better, and now I can see options to improve my life going forward. If I had continued running in the race of studies during these gap years, I might never have gained these life realizations. So, I’m truly grateful for this.

But yes, laziness has started creeping in, and I definitely want to overcome that. I can’t cover up my comfort and laziness in the name of these realizations. There is still time, and I want to do something meaningful.


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