How do you stay resilient in hard times?

I have to be 100% honest, as always.

I didn’t have any hard times before I had tbi at 24 years old for several reasons:( I have been experiencing what hard times literally mean every day for the last eight years

• The economy was almost euphoric when I was a teenager 🤭, even though my parents were in the middle-income class 🤷🏼‍♂️.
• I have had this annoying yet truthful attitude toward life: “If something is broken, it can be fixed/ if you need money, you can make/ if you have a problem, you can find a solution/ if you want to make friends, go out and have fun 🤷🏼‍♂️”. Simplicity is underrated.
• I have already fed my mind for 20 years to be successful when I joined the workforce 😳

You might have noticed that I mostly count on my mind till then.

And life has a way of saying “ Don’t be so confident, smartpants!”

Since I am one of the good ones and like to use my brain a lot, I would love to assume that the divine has shown me great mercy by sparing my mind untouched and my body functioning properly 🙏♥️ mashallah:)

In the meantime, he gave me one of the ultimate tests ever for a modern human: trusting other people’s expertise and care while learning to regain physical and verbal independence (“I have blessed your mind and soul; let’s see how you figure out the body”).

I’m certain that tbi recovery is not happening thanks to the help from people who have an ego (or “nafs”) but the Most Capable ( Compassionate and the only Flawless).

However, as much as I don’t want to admit it, He’s doing all by granting the reasons. Let me give the most obvious example from my recovery: my left arm and wrist had very severe calcifications, and we were getting upset after 3 different negative orthopaedist appointments. Most people usually give up by rationalising the situation.

Nonetheless, my mom has absolute trust in Allah, so I heard she was asking Him for guidance every day. One day, my brother brought a couple of gym friends to work with me, and they told us about a successful surgeon who specialised in such cases.

See, the reason 🤭

The divine obviously has the power to lead you to the conclusion you need; however, such a world wouldn’t exist for testing us 😳.

I have many stories which were driven by the divine system.

Everything has its time 🤓