FATE - A burning desire

Some weeks ago, GOC posted a post on fate. That got my mind ticking. What is fate? How does it affect our lives? Was the incident that your mom caught you with your pants down part of the mechanism of fate or was it just plain unlucky?

I believe that fate is closely related to destiny and it is an inevitable course of event that happens in our lives. How many times do things and incidents seem suspiciously pre-ordined and we can't seem to put a finger as to a reason why? My friend, I believe that to be the nature of a certain highly-intelligent creature called fate.

How is fate affecting our lives, you might wonder. Certain events and certain people that we meet might just be fate running it's course. How often do we turn to our partners and say "It's fate that we met" or that things seem to happen at the right place and the right time and we give that "it's fate" kind of look to the bewildered onlooker.

A good example is a friend of mine who seems to always make it to the next idea level of life despite the odds. He's now in the university and "struggling to the brim" as I would describe, but you would be amazed that some time back even the ITE would have a problem trying to accept him. He's the kind that out of a million people, you would least expect him to make it through. Heck, he even have problems coming for school, let alone his tests. Yet, he's always the one to succeed. I'm sure all of you would wish that life was as simple as that. You try to fail, yet you still succeed. My friend, that's called fate.

I'm sure that most of your by now, if you bought my story on fate so far, would have resigned yourself to that kind of life and say " Well, that's it. I guess life's cruel, I'm just a victim of this monstrosity called fate, and I'll just sail through it." Let me tell you this, you're not alone! Many a person had experienced untold misfortures and gave up trying in life. Let me say this, although fate guide and chart our lives, it does not decide our lives!

We still decide on what we eat, what we wear and who we marry. Fate might bring two persons together, but it does not mean that they'll end up together! We have choices and decisions to make. So what if the palmist and fortune teller comes and tell you that you're going to be rich one day? Don't tell me we can just squander away our money and hope that tons more just appear on our doorstep. We still have to work and put in the effort to create opportunities for fate to do it's job.

So guys and gals, let's not just sail along and hope for the best. Instead let's all do our best in whatever we do, no matter the difficulty and obstacles. After all if Thomas Edison did'nt try over 2000 different ways to invent the light bulb and Abraham Lincoln didn't give up despite failure after failure, they would not had succeeded and our world would still be in darkness today. "Fate may guide and chart our lives, but it is us who makes decisions and live it."