005: Trust.

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Deep down, you know that your life will turn out beautifully. Somewhere in your heart, you feel that it all ends well. Even when your mind and body sometimes try to betray this feeling, you know it as surely as you know your name.

That assurance did not sneak in dishonestly. It is not disconnected from your reality and the millions of reasons you have to feel uncertain. It is also not merely the product of affirmations or misguided optimistic advice. Your fears are accounted for, your doubts acknowledged, and the beautiful part is that this conviction—that you will absolutely be great—refuses to leave.

If you wonder why, it is because your mind has become a reserve of evidence gathered over years of being alive. All the narrow escapes, the unexpected opportunities, the situations that seemed impossible until they weren’t, the outcomes that exceeded your expectations—they have all left an indelible mark.

These moments have filled the bank of your soul. They remind you that life is rarely as predictable as your fears would have you imagine that it should be. Again and again, events have unfolded in ways you could never have anticipated, and somehow, the way has never failed to open up for your passage.

You have to trust what your own outcomes have already shown you. The first step is abandoning the instinct to arm-wrestle time into solving problems that have not yet arrived. Zoom out and look at the full arc of your journey. You will see the patterns emerge. You will see that much of what mattered most was never something you could have planned for. The people, opportunities, and turning points arrived by routes you could not have strategised for. Trust that Life has the way of carrying you forward.

- Ifeoma.