Fate
I mean what is fate really.
Is fate walking into a room, locking eyes, and subsequently acquiring never-ending butterflies? Is it growing up together, losing touch, only to reunite and feel like not a single day has passed? Or is it spending 4 years together, being "used to each other", and ultimately being happy with that comfort?
What is fate, what are soul mates and which way does the wheel of fortune turn?
According to Webster, fate is as follows:
1. something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot: It is always his fate to be left behind.
2. the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed; the decreed cause of events; time: Fate decreed that they would never meet again.
3. that which is inevitably predetermined; destiny: Death is our ineluctable fate.
4. a prophetic declaration of what must be: The oracle pronounced their fate.
5. death, destruction, or ruin.
It makes you wonder what kind of a sick joke our forefathers were playing to begin with when they created a word that not only signifies the inevitable formation of destiny, but at the same time entails ruin and destruction.
Personally, destiny to me seems more apt to bend within the definition, because while I do believe that destiny exists, I do not believe our entire lives, and the people in them, are mapped out in advance; and our decisions in life are therefore pre-determined. I refuse to believe that the choices and the sacrifices I make on a daily basis are not somehow shaping, directly or indirectly, the way my life is headed.
But fate.. it doesn't bend. Every person, every thing, every fiber of every action.. is fate. Really, what a person chooses to do with those fatuous encounters... that is what makes it their destiny.
Is fate walking into a room, locking eyes, and subsequently acquiring never-ending butterflies? Is it growing up together, losing touch, only to reunite and feel like not a single day has passed? Or is it spending 4 years together, being "used to each other", and ultimately being happy with that comfort?
What is fate, what are soul mates and which way does the wheel of fortune turn?
According to Webster, fate is as follows:
1. something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot: It is always his fate to be left behind.
2. the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed; the decreed cause of events; time: Fate decreed that they would never meet again.
3. that which is inevitably predetermined; destiny: Death is our ineluctable fate.
4. a prophetic declaration of what must be: The oracle pronounced their fate.
5. death, destruction, or ruin.
It makes you wonder what kind of a sick joke our forefathers were playing to begin with when they created a word that not only signifies the inevitable formation of destiny, but at the same time entails ruin and destruction.
Personally, destiny to me seems more apt to bend within the definition, because while I do believe that destiny exists, I do not believe our entire lives, and the people in them, are mapped out in advance; and our decisions in life are therefore pre-determined. I refuse to believe that the choices and the sacrifices I make on a daily basis are not somehow shaping, directly or indirectly, the way my life is headed.
But fate.. it doesn't bend. Every person, every thing, every fiber of every action.. is fate. Really, what a person chooses to do with those fatuous encounters... that is what makes it their destiny.