Perspective Shift
This week has been rough. This is the first week of solid food preparation for my daughter (cooking is very stressful for me 😭) , combined with personal problems, and hectic days at work. Last night, though, while I was doom scrolling, I came across this instagram reels that talked about surah Al-Baqarah 2:286,
Allah does not burden any human being with a responsibility heavier than he can bear.
The reel said: "The only difference between you and them (people who have life that is harder than yours) is God’s mercy on your soul- which means God does not give a soul more than it could bear". Wow. I had a perspective change after watching the reel. It was a scary coincidence that I find this verse when I needed it the most.
Two things came into my mind:
God has choosen this specific life for me, with what my soul can bear in His mind
I sometimes wonder why I have an easier life than someone else. I sometimes wonder why I have a harder life than someone else. I sometimes wonder how can I live in a war-zone, in Palestine, for example. I would not have survived. I would not have the hope and courage as what the Palestinians have been going through. And it is God’s mercy on my soul. It is a humbling thought, that God knows that my soul is not strong like them, and has given me this portion of life because He knows that I can handle it.
No matter how He tested me, He had the faith that I can bear it
In contrast, it is also a comforting thought that any test that God has for me in the past and in the future, is given to me because I can bear it. Because he knows exactly what my capabilities are. This knowledge helped me while I'm in a hard time, and to have confidence in myself that I can solve any of my problems, and to heal me from wallowing in sadness and the hardness of life.
This post has been uncharacteristically serious and deeply personal. Writing about spiritualism or religion is not my forte, but I hope the verse can help and heal you from the tiredness of life, to be able to semangat!!! when dunia kocar-kacir, like it did to me :)














