Everything will be okay

This morning during meditation, my mind drifted to friends who are walking through some of the hardest seasons of their lives. In that quiet space, the thought came:Everything will be ok.

It’s a phrase I’ve carried for decades, but I remember exactly when I first realized it.

I was in college, barely holding life together. I had moved out of my parents’ home, and with that independence came a deal: “If you move out, we’re not giving you any money.”

So I worked three jobs while earning a degree in biomedical engineering, a program that was demanding and exhausting. On top of that, I was heartbroken after a breakup, and my calendar was a blur of overlapping work shifts, lab projects, studying, assignments, and back-to-back exams.

One afternoon, it all hit me. My only reaction was to scream, because that was the only way I could release my anxious energy.

But right after that scream came a strange calm. I pictured my future self in my late twenties, no longer dealing with what I was going through at that moment, looking back at it all. And I knew:

This will pass. This is just a small glimpse in time. I just have to keep going.

Now, at 45, I’m deeply grateful I had that realization so young. Over the years, I’ve faced stress, heartbreak, and what felt like the “dark night of the soul” more than once. And every time, that same truth carried me through:

No matter the circumstance, everything will be ok.

It’s not blind optimism. It’s the knowing that even in the mess, we keep moving forward. The weight eventually lifts, clarity comes, and life finds its way back to balance.

If you’re in a difficult period right now, I hope this truth finds you too. One day, you’ll look back and see it for what it was — a chapter, not the whole story.

And everything will be ok.