Slipping through life

How did this happen to me? How did I outgrow it?

These are the two questions that saved my 2025 from being the lost year, and turned it into the most transformative one yet.

I walked straight into circumstances I didn’t ask for. The kind that make you want to rewind life or press fast-forward just to escape.

But seriously, instead of breaking me they bent me into shape. Something unexpectedly good bloomed from the mess.

That’s what I call slipping through life…when things don’t go your way, but somehow, you start going yours.

So, as I stand at a surprisingly peaceful place today, here are 5 things I’ve taken from this wild, reluctant ride:

1) My detour wasn’t a delay.

Sometimes life doesn’t take you off-track, it’s just redirecting you to a road you didn’t know you needed. I spent months wondering why things weren’t “working out.” Turns out, they were working on me. Every wrong turn was secretly preparing me for the right path.

2) I could outgrow people without hating them.

Growth doesn’t always come with drama. Some friendships or relationships fade quietly, like songs that end before you realise. And that’s okay. Outgrowing people doesn’t mean you’ve become colder, it just means your warmth doesn’t belong there.

3) Peace is not found, it’s built. I used to wait for peace like it was a parcel that would show up at my door one day. But it doesn’t arrive…you assemble it. Brick by brick, boundary by boundary. It’s the result of a hundred tiny decisions you make in your favor.

4) The best kind of strength is silence. It’s not in proving a point or winning an argument. It’s in walking away without bitterness, forgiving without explaining, and keeping your dignity when nobody’s watching. Things changed after I started practising quiet strength.

5) You don’t heal by going back to who you were but you heal by becoming who you needed to be.

I kept trying to “get back” to my old self…the cheerful, driven version of me before everything got messy.

But healing isn’t a rewind. It’s a rewrite.

The version of me standing here today isn’t who I used to be and thank God for that.

So yeah maybe 2025 wasn’t the year I planned. But it sure became the year I prepared.

For bigger things, clearer thoughts, and better choices.

If life’s gonna keep throwing plot twists, I might as well learn to improvise with style.

And that’s all I have for you today.