'Everything happens for a reason.'

Don't these words reach us everyday? Sometimes even more frequent than that. From different people, through many posts, and in various forms but the message is the same. And to be honest, isn't it so encouraging in the beginning? You feel a blast of light and hope to fill you up. You fall into your dreams again. You smile once more, knowing it will get better.

You'll lay out all your reasons and say you need help. We all got expectations and sometimes they go wrong. They tell you to think with your head, not the thing in your chest. But that's not what you want, right? And again, you hear them say, 'Don't worry. Everything will be fine in the end. All of this must have a meaning in the big picture.'

But for how much longer?

How much more to endure, how long do you have to keep up the facade? How many more days are there until the time when you finally wake up to find everything set in place, every answer laid out, and each uncertainty finally fitting in the place? How long for that sigh of relief that comes out your mouth as you finally feel what you've been dreaming for so long? When the puzzle is solved? And when you realize that everything does happen for a reason.
Or worse, is that ever gonna come?

Slowly and gradually, the decay reaches deeper and deeper, penetrating in your roots. Until you're totally rotten. You stink of hopelessness, of despair. You don't pray anymore, you don't hope. You're just swallowing whatever life throws your way. You become a sculpture of patience. It usually comes with age. When society and destiny, both have thoroughly scrubbed you until the brightness of your smile dims, the optimistic shine your soul had is faded and the scars come out on the open.
The gleaming steel is corroded into rust.

Because either you embrace every adversity with open arms or not, it's still headed this way.

And the most dangerous fact is that this time, you don't end up smiling. The spark that used to light you up, has sort of died down.
Maybe for those days, He, who is there wherever you are, said,

So verily, with the hardship, there is relief. Verily, with the hardship, there is relief. | Surah al-Inshirah (94:5-6)

All you have to wait and watch and I know I know, I'm not naive. I know this is easier said than done. Hell, it's the easiest thing to say but there's a reality behind it. Losing faith in a better future only calls for more worst times. Whoever puts his trust in Him, He will be enough for him. Trust Him when he says,

'So remember me; I shall remember you' | Surah Al-Baqarah