Taking Things For Granted

I’ve taken things for granted before, and I always do. it doesn’t mean I don’t recognize the value of someone or something in my life, it’s just that I’m mostly busy and never able to find time to reflect upon the things I have in my life.

but through implicit actions and behavior, a friend of mine taught me how not to take things for granted. he had learned this lesson the hard way, and I get to open my eyes to this more and more.

I’ve once learned the lesson back in 2023 when the war started. I’ve had the life that I wanted. I’ve had everything I want, and suddenly lost it all. I’ve briefly wrote about it

I’ve never stopped to give this sudden shift its weight. I just adapted quietly and quickly.

but the lesson I’ve learned is that nothing is permanent, and what happened to someone else could happen to you. you can lose all what you have at a glimpse of time.

and most importantly, there is life.

I’ve done things I was afraid of doing after surviving the war in Sudan. conversations I’ve been avoiding, and emotions that I once kept inside were leaked.

I remember some were positive. others were hurtful, and I’ve cut people that I cared about when I spoke with them.

but that was progress.

I’ve never thought about it until now. I let things flow and took the actions, because I started to learn that nothing is here forever, and that everything will slide.

it is our responsibility to live fully, and not wait for when things slide and regret later that we lived in our head.

although I’ve learned this lesson earlier, as life moves forward I’m getting more comfortable again. falling into my own patterns again, patterns that I once said desperately I want to change.

and forgetting slowly about this precious lesson in life.

as if we humans are biologically wired to be graceful and alive just for the very few months of surviving a catastrophe, and then the brain goes back to the mud of life.

I hate the fact that I’m slowly losing my grip on this lesson.

is it because I’m surrounded by people who take things for granted.
is it my faith.
is it that I no longer have a threat to make me value the loss of the things I care about.

whatsoever, it is time to rethink what you have taken for granted, and appreciate it more.

and find ways to keep looking at how essential it once felt to you, and how important it is in your life.