I was never destined to believe in fate…

This week the disturbing and woeful Shane set the Project Say Something Theme and it is:

Do you believe in Fate? How has it impacted your life?

Yes - actually. I believe in fate. I believe that everything that will happen, has happened, that human beings are trapped by their perception of time. (See Who Knows.) Fate - I think is much like being in the middle of reading a book. Perhaps at a tense moment in a chapter when you are not sure what will happen next. Your mind reels with possibilities, alternative futures for the characters. Will they make it out alive? He can’t be dead! Something must happen to change it. In so much as we can allow our minds to imagine these possibilities, the fact is… Whatever the author has written, will happen regardless of how you may try to change it. But the key is in how you experience the story. How you react to the latest turn of events. How you find and share joy, sorrow, despair, and glee with each turn of the page. That is very much how fate operates. It really doesn’t matter how the story ends, it’s how you experience it along the way.

In my life there are times when I’ve tried to rage against that which I thought I didn’t want, couldn’t do or just couldn’t happen. Often I’ve found that to be as effective as yelling at a page in a book who’s story is going somewhere unexpected. Nothing changed, only my experience along the way was changed.

So, does that mean we are all fated and nothing we do will change that? Oh no, certainly not. It’s all about the experience. It’s all about continuing to read the story. If I can help others have a more enjoyable experience while turning the pages of their life, all the better. The big events will happen one way or the other. (they already have, actually) But if you stop reading or stop caring, you will miss the most important part. The experience.