A Discombobulating Engagement

Today was another long and action packed day. I woke up to the garbage men collecting all the unwanted items of my neighbors, my same-dwelling occupants and, most importantly, yours truly. I washed up, went to work, talk about sewage, ate some lunch, then finished up my work for the day by pushing some tedious calculations and wetting my tongue in a delicious environmental handbook. After work, I picked up a sofa-couch and an ottoman for my brother, went for a run, pondered over my broken car, and then watched a movie. Yes, I know what you are thinking, a day for the ages. How can fate be so kind?

That is just it though, that word, fate and its counterparts destiny, kismet and predestination. Is our lives really preplanned out for us? Is this what I was suppose to do today? Did I not have a choice? What about free will? Come on, what's the answer? Do we reside in a kingdom of destiny or an empire of free will?

These are very tough questions to answer, and it is a very confusing topic to discuss. For instance, a life subjected to free will possesses the liberty to progress through time without disregard for constraints. This life moves from moment to moment, feeling the pleasures of being in control, moving towards that future, the pinnacle of their life, a pinnacle of which they and they alone had the complete freedom to create. A person who experiences this life travels freely upon the space-time continuum. All actions are instantaneous reactions.

Now let us look at a life which is controlled by predestination, fate. This life travels along with the passage of time, accepting all for what it is. Each moment brings it what is to be expected. Eventually time besets them upon their destiny, that of which they were born for. This life never questions its role in the world, just accepts life as is. All actions are scientifically/religiously logical reactions.

After contemplating these two choices, I find it very hard to choose between the two. Mainly because I believe that each, free will and predestination are codependent upon one another. Yes, we have the freedom to choose how to live are lives and it is as we make this choice, that we allow our choice to become what was meant to be. All of us are free to choose this path or that but, as fate my have it, we pick what we were going to have picked all along.

Not sure how much sense this all makes but take is as you will and remember that this is exactly how you are suppose to understand it. Live your life to your best intentions, and when you reflect upon it accept it for what it was.