March 26, 2007

  • Altering Fate

    On occasion, you may find that life has thrust you down a path not of your choosing, as if compelled by some outside force or a strong current. You're pushed along this course through no choice of your own, constantly feeling as if no matter what you do or what choices you make, your future is unalterably fixed and immutable, because it has a way of seeking you out anyway. You try to escape and it finds you. You make different choices and somehow they curve around back to the path you were taking. All of your attempts to change your fate seem futile.

    Perhaps the focus, then, should not be so much on changing the end result, but rather the course of our lives which we are taking to reach it. Perhaps the potential end result is more of a signal to us that this is not a definitive future, but rather a likely one if we do not change some of the larger aspects of what we do from day to day. Perhaps by living the life we want to live, rather than the life we've been encouraged to live, we can eventually alter our fate enough that we will avoid the tragic end that we thought was awaiting us.

    "You can get so confused
    that you'll start in to race
    down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace
    and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space,
    headed, I fear, toward a most useless place."