Life… can be unfair sometimes.

Actually, I don't think life was ever meant to be fair.

Everyone has their own unique problems. Some say, "Life share problem give everybody." One person has one problem, another has two, and someone else may be dealing with a thousand things at once.

But one thing I've come to understand is this: you might be going through a thousand and one problems, but that shouldn't make you look down on someone because you think they are only dealing with one.

We all have our own unique battles.

You cannot use the weight of your problems to judge the weight of someone else's.

Another thing I've come to understand is that the way you solve your problems might not work for another person. Some problems don't have a one-size-fits-all solution. Just because something worked for you doesn't mean it will work for someone else.

Our problems are different, so sometimes, the ways we deal with them will be different too. Even when two people seem to be going through similar situations, what works for one person may not work for the other.

Learn to find your own way through your own problems.

And please, problem is not a competition.

There is no prize for proving that you are suffering more than someone else.

There is no need to tell someone, “You think you're going through something? You haven't seen what I'm going through."

Yes, we cannot deny that some people go through situations that are far worse than what others experience. But that doesn't mean another person's pain suddenly becomes insignificant.

After all, it is the person wearing the shoe who knows exactly where it pinches.

Sometimes, we look at someone and think, “That's all they're worried about?”

But we don't know what that problem means to them.

We don't know how long they've been carrying it.

We don't know what else they are dealing with behind closed doors.

And we don't know how much strength it took for them to keep showing up every day.

Problems are unavoidable. They come in seasons, phases and different times of our lives. We cannot completely run away from them.

All we can do is face them head-on and refuse to let them completely break us.

And somehow, in the long run, we may look back and realise that some of the things we thought would destroy us were also shaping us into who we are becoming.

So, to everyone carrying something today, I hope you find the courage to face it.
I hope you find your own way through it.

And most importantly, I hope you remember that your problem does not have to be the biggest problem in the world before it is allowed to hurt.

We are all carrying something.

May we all find the strength to carry ours—and the grace to be gentle with people carrying theirs.

Life is not a competition.