On there's never a right time to do anything

Something I've learnt while planning a wedding in 6 months and finishing a book

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Wembley, September 2025

It was while I was stroking canopies of silk looms and holding up fuchsia and bottle green banarasi saris up to my face that I was reminded of the fact that there is never a right time to do anything.

It was the middle of the week, my best friend had taken the day off work and was thoroughly asking the aunties in Wembley for specific colour palettes.

The Uber ride there consisted of ordering gifts for my husband-to-be's family, sending design measurements to my tailor and answering emails about the night before, in which I announced to the general public at the Muslim Romance Festival about my debut book set to be released next summer, inshallah.

There is never a right time to do anything.

Rifling through organza at RCTC, September 2025

The above is not to glamourise my tight rope balancing act (being a South Asian bride is driving me crazy, frankly) but a reflection that there is never a right time to finish a book, to marry the love of your life, to make your dreams come true.

It sounds so cliché but as someone who has usually framed her life as the ‘right’ time to make things happen: the right time to apply for a new job, the right time to date, the right time to work on a passion project, the right time to be ready for a new chapter, the right time to ‘heal’— always researching, forever journalling, mindfully seeking — it is refreshing to remember that organisation and planning is great but it is sometimes chaos and jumping in with both feet, lungs and your head and heart and trusting that it will work out for your benefit regardless of the outcome, that gets the job done.