Writer's Block: Meant to Be?
Strings, ropes, and cutting instruments.
What people mistake for "fate" often, is the links between people... which are established automatically, but are usually no more than fine threads: easily broken, hardly even visible unless you are very perceptive. However, that's why you dream about people one day and then run into them the next day... the connections are only metaphorical strings; they connect persons but not via space and may shift a little bit in time.
On the other hand, these connections can get "thicker", and become like ropes (we tend to have these with people we spend more time around... we "feel attached") and even chains (these can link people to imaginary people, for example, a past self which went through trauma).
To the extent that we are capable of directing our focus, we can enhance links to imaginary people and then find real people to syncronize these links to... "love at first sight" and "meeting the perfect partner" happen when we perceive such a match happening.
Of course, most people aren't aware that they can improve these links, or even sever them altogether... so they go through life thinking it is all preplanned or that someone is intentionally manipulating things for good ("God is on my side") or for bad("The Matrix has me! They're all coming to get me!")... but it is by our actions, focus, and inactions that these links are formed, grown, and maintained.
Oh, and as to why this system of thinking came about... it's one of those "esoteric" things that you might find mixed in with cult propoganda, but Iearnt it on a course I did eons ago, and then experimented for a while to verify that it's a workable model... being able to weave your own web of connections is both powerful and a burden in the sense of responsiblity, and I think the latter reason is what keeps us disbelieving that they can control their own fate, and deferring to gods or goverment conspiracies.
What people mistake for "fate" often, is the links between people... which are established automatically, but are usually no more than fine threads: easily broken, hardly even visible unless you are very perceptive. However, that's why you dream about people one day and then run into them the next day... the connections are only metaphorical strings; they connect persons but not via space and may shift a little bit in time.
On the other hand, these connections can get "thicker", and become like ropes (we tend to have these with people we spend more time around... we "feel attached") and even chains (these can link people to imaginary people, for example, a past self which went through trauma).
To the extent that we are capable of directing our focus, we can enhance links to imaginary people and then find real people to syncronize these links to... "love at first sight" and "meeting the perfect partner" happen when we perceive such a match happening.
Of course, most people aren't aware that they can improve these links, or even sever them altogether... so they go through life thinking it is all preplanned or that someone is intentionally manipulating things for good ("God is on my side") or for bad("The Matrix has me! They're all coming to get me!")... but it is by our actions, focus, and inactions that these links are formed, grown, and maintained.
Oh, and as to why this system of thinking came about... it's one of those "esoteric" things that you might find mixed in with cult propoganda, but Iearnt it on a course I did eons ago, and then experimented for a while to verify that it's a workable model... being able to weave your own web of connections is both powerful and a burden in the sense of responsiblity, and I think the latter reason is what keeps us disbelieving that they can control their own fate, and deferring to gods or goverment conspiracies.