Elixir of the self, author: Sujaya Al-Harbi

Have life circumstances and destinies left a person unchanged? All of us change with the passage of situations, losing some loved ones, and some dreams as well. Our priorities... our concepts... even our prayers have changed. Change is the way of life, which if you do not accept it voluntarily, life will force you to accept it through the harshest lessons. That painful loss and the dream that was not meant for you in this world, and that path you walked out of necessity and was not part of your plan even to pass by it. And the only constant in this is that God chooses what is always confusion for us. Each of us has been burdened by life in one way or another, but it is noble not to burden life on each other as well... but to ease it with a kind word and humane treatment, so we do not shake hands with a weak fist, nor offer false friendship, nor speak softly with bitterness of intention and the sting of insinuation. And we do not wait for others' mistakes, but to be of great souls in everything—by nature, judgment, and good intentions—if someone joins us in happiness.