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The Ordeal Of The Unknown
<p><img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/1000214995.jpg"/></p><p><br/></p><p>How do you shape the unknown?</p><p>How do you wake up every day,</p><p>get dressed,</p><p>leave your home</p><p>not knowing what’s waiting outside?</p><p><br/></p><p>Not knowing if the world will cave in,</p><p>or if that’s the day you die.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe that’s the cruel miracle of being human</p><p>walking blindly into the fire,</p><p>praying it’s not too hot,</p><p>not too cold,</p><p>just survivable enough</p><p>for you to make it through another hour.</p><p><br/></p><p>And then, </p><p>we meet Experience.</p><p><br/></p><p>The only teacher who does not care</p><p>if you’re the slow learner in class</p><p>or the genius in the front row.</p><p><br/></p><p>The only teacher who gives you the test first</p><p>and the lesson afterwards.</p><p><br/></p><p>No warnings.</p><p>No syllabus.</p><p>No gentle hand on your shoulder</p><p>whispering what page to study.</p><p><br/></p><p>Just impact.</p><p>Just consequences.</p><p>Just you,</p><p>standing there,</p><p>blinking through the shock of it.</p><p><br/></p><p>People talk about growth</p><p>like it’s some soft, green thing, </p><p>a plant stretching toward the sun.</p><p><br/></p><p>But nobody talks about how it feels</p><p>to be the seed.</p><p><br/></p><p>Buried.</p><p>Pressed.</p><p>Cracked open</p><p>before you even bloom.</p><p><br/></p><p>Experience doesn’t care if you’re ready.</p><p>It doesn’t care if you’re scared,</p><p>or fragile,</p><p>or trying your best, </p><p><br/></p><p>because sometimes</p><p>your best</p><p>is still not enough.</p><p><br/></p><p>Instead,</p><p>it hands you the storm</p><p>and expects you to learn the language of thunder</p><p>while you’re drowning in the rain.</p><p><br/></p><p>Only later,</p><p>when you’re sitting in the ruins,</p><p>hands shaking,</p><p>heart still echoing with the storm you survived</p><p><br/></p><p>only then</p><p>does the lesson reveal itself.</p><p><br/></p><p>Quietly.</p><p>Shyly.</p><p>As if it wasn’t the reason</p><p>you bled.</p><p><br/></p><p>And the cruel thing?</p><p>Those are the lessons that stay.</p><p>The ones that matter.</p><p>The ones that scar.</p><p><br/></p><p>The ones you never forget</p><p>because forgetting</p><p>means repeating.</p><p><br/></p><p>And repeating</p><p>means rewriting the test, </p><p>and nobody,</p><p>nobody</p><p>wants that.</p><p><br/></p><p>It’s messy,</p><p>painful education.</p><p>But somehow</p><p>it’s the only kind</p><p>that truly shapes you.</p><p><br/></p><p>Experience tests you first,</p><p>teaches you later,</p><p>and marks your paper</p><p>with ink only you can see.</p><p><br/></p><p>But in that brutal, backward way,</p><p>it turns you into someone</p><p>who can survive the next test</p><p>and the next,</p><p>and the next,</p><p>and all the ones after that,</p><p>because trust me, </p><p>they will come.</p><p><br/></p><p>Even when you don’t know they’re coming.</p><p>Even when you don’t feel ready.</p><p>Even when the unknown is staring back</p><p>and you’re shaking</p><p>but still standing.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p>
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