Fate?
I don't believe in fate.
You are given the ability and the opportunity to get what you need. If you really need it, there is a way.
That is sort of a tautology. Defining needs by what is available.
So lets try that again.
Anything that can be said "it was fate", is really just (to me) someone making a logical fallacy.
Like for instance lottery winners : "it was one in 80 million, I was lucky and it was fate that I won". NO, SORRY. Someone gets to be the one, even though everyone's odds are terrible!
Or: "it was fate that I found X!! " (X being a person, job, the proverbial brass ring, your long lost uncle, etc.)
An opportunity came, you had the ability to get it, and the desire to actually do something about it. In fact the opportunity only came because you had the ability to put yourself in the right place, go back a few levels. At some point you reach a butterfly effect though (if I hadn't built that sandcastle when I was 13, I wouldn't have met Bill Clinton).
For instance:
This job. I got this exxon job because:
I had lots of interviews before hand, so I was cool and collected when I came to Fairfax. I had all these interviews on campus (including XOM) because I went to Purdue and had a good GPA. I had a good GPA because I'm a great test taker. Thanks to decathlon. I joined decathlon because I'm clever and competitive (my abilities). I went to Purdue because its in state, and was a great engineering school. I stayed instate because I'm cheap.
So because I'm a clever competitive cheapskate (this whole post is an excuse to get to that alliteration) I'm here today.
So not fate. (yes I skipped a lot more little steps in that, but this is just a thought. And excuse for alliteration
You are given the ability and the opportunity to get what you need. If you really need it, there is a way.
That is sort of a tautology. Defining needs by what is available.
So lets try that again.
Anything that can be said "it was fate", is really just (to me) someone making a logical fallacy.
Like for instance lottery winners : "it was one in 80 million, I was lucky and it was fate that I won". NO, SORRY. Someone gets to be the one, even though everyone's odds are terrible!
Or: "it was fate that I found X!! " (X being a person, job, the proverbial brass ring, your long lost uncle, etc.)
An opportunity came, you had the ability to get it, and the desire to actually do something about it. In fact the opportunity only came because you had the ability to put yourself in the right place, go back a few levels. At some point you reach a butterfly effect though (if I hadn't built that sandcastle when I was 13, I wouldn't have met Bill Clinton).
For instance:
This job. I got this exxon job because:
I had lots of interviews before hand, so I was cool and collected when I came to Fairfax. I had all these interviews on campus (including XOM) because I went to Purdue and had a good GPA. I had a good GPA because I'm a great test taker. Thanks to decathlon. I joined decathlon because I'm clever and competitive (my abilities). I went to Purdue because its in state, and was a great engineering school. I stayed instate because I'm cheap.
So because I'm a clever competitive cheapskate (this whole post is an excuse to get to that alliteration) I'm here today.
So not fate. (yes I skipped a lot more little steps in that, but this is just a thought. And excuse for alliteration