Trust your timing: you’re not behind, you’re becoming

It’s easy to get lost in other people’s timelines. But your growth isn’t late. It’s just your own.

It’s easy to compare. It’s easy to get in your head. To look around and think you’re late. Someone graduates at 21, but waits a decade to find a job that actually fits. Someone else drops out and is a millionaire by 25. One marries young and divorces five years later. Another finds love at 40 and it lasts forever. You're not late. You're not early. You're exactly where you're meant to be.

You’re not early, you’re not late

Your timing isn’t broken, it’s just yours. We forget how unique we are in a world of seven billion timelines. Your thoughts, skills, story and sensitivity? There’s no replica of that.

And when you begin to walk your own path, heart over crowd, truth over trend, you begin to feel less distracted by theirs.

It’s not about money, status, or speed. That’s all just noise.

The illusion of perfect timing

Social media shows us the peak. But not the days where we feel stuck, unsure, slow. The days we scroll past others’ success and question our own.

But that’s not failure. It’s the messy, necessary middle. And it’s part of every story, especially the ones worth telling.

You fall behind only when you chase a path that isn’t yours.

What no one shows you online

No one shows the nights of doubt. The CVs ignored. The inner work. But that’s where everything begins. Not in the photo-ready moments. In the quiet ones. The ones you push through when no one’s clapping.

You are both your greatest strength and your greatest resistance. And only you can choose to begin again and keep going.

A turning point

I started a law degree that felt right, until it didn’t. At 21, I graduated. But a year later, I knew: this wasn’t it. I craved creativity. Energy. Something I could shape.

And so, the search began. Not easy. Not linear. But worth it.

Rejection as redirection

Now, a year later, I live in Spain. I work remotely. And I do what energizes me. I’ve started as an appointment setter, where creativity meets communication. And none of this would’ve happened without all the "no’s" I heard in the Netherlands.

That rejection? It carved the space for something better.

Where I am now

Maybe it won’t click today. Maybe not tomorrow. But it will.

If you give it time. If you trust your timing. If you follow the path that feels right, even when it doesn’t make sense yet.

Because growth isn’t loud. Or instant. Or always visible. It just needs your commitment to keep going.

Trust your timing, trust yourself

Your path will ask for patience. Your heart will ask for honesty. And your life will ask for courage.

So take the next step, even if it’s small. And trust that it’s enough.

You’re not behind. You’re becoming.

If you’re still in that space, not quite where you were, not yet where you want to be, this might be the reminder you need: Personal Growth in the Middle