Ishola

23/02/2026

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18/02/2026

Ayah Of The Day

18/02/2026

Sahoor time
Alhamdulillah
Ramadan Day 1

17/02/2026

Ramadan Kareem

16/02/2026

I woke up to silence. No alarm. No warning. Just sunlight screaming through my window.
I grabbed my phone.
9:12 AM.
My heart stopped.
“NO… NO… NO… THIS CAN’T BE REAL!”
The meeting. The important meeting.
The kind of meeting people say changes lives.
I jumped out of bed like the house was on fire. Shirt half-buttoned. One sock missing. Bag in my mouth like I was escaping a crime scene.
Outside, I yelled,
“Cab! PLEASE — emergency!”
The driver looked at me.
“What emergency?”
“My future is leaving without me!”
He nodded like he understood the gravity of the situation.
We drove for exactly two minutes… Then traffic swallowed us whole.
Cars weren’t moving. They were parked emotionally.
Horns everywhere. Traders shouting. One man was brushing his teeth beside a bus like this was his living room. I checked the clock. Tick… tick… tick…
Every second sounded like a judge hitting a gavel.
I called the office, whisper-shouting,
“Please… I’m coming… tell them I am on my way stucked in a traffic!”
Suddenly, a small boy on a bicycle appeared beside us like a movie character.
He slapped the car lightly.
“Oga, follow me!”
My driver looked at me.
“You trust this?”
“At this point,” I said,
“I trust destiny!”
We zig-zagged through traffic like we were filming an action movie. My soul left my body twice and came back.
We arrived.
Five minutes early.
I burst into the office, sweating like I had run from another country.
“Meeting!” I gasped. “I’m here!”
The receptionist blinked.
“…Meeting?”
“Yes! Important meeting! Life-changing meeting!”
She smiled calmly.
“That was rescheduled last week.”
Silence.
My brain rebooted.
“All… this… for next week?”
I laughed. Loud. Confused. Slightly broken. 😭
I nearly fought traffic, destiny, and my cardiovascular system… for a meeting that wasn’t even today.

And that’s when it hit me, Sometimes the panic feels real.
The pressure feels real. But the crisis? Only in your head.

Not every alarm in your life means run.
Sometimes… just breathe.
Tell me — have you ever almost collapsed over something that didn’t even happen?

Ishola