Abstract Thoughts on Fate

Last night, just before bed, I was in my bathroom and a little spider was crawling across the bathroom floor. "Sorry bud", I said, "You're just in the wrong place at the wrong time". Then I squished the little guy. That's when the though struck me, as it does from time to time - is there a time when I'll just be in the wrong place? Where some big cosmic finger will just squish me out of existence with a "sorry bud but..."

That, my friends, is fate. No matter what we do, what we try, we can attempt to influence our lives, the things in play around us, yet at the same time, so much is up to fate. Certain things we can control. Try to control. Think we control. For instance, we can operate our motor vehicle in a manner to best ensure we maintain control of it and can react to the actions of others. Yet at the same time, we can't control all others, or avoid every single possible situation. Thus, each time we drive, the outcome is assumed, but in reality, unknown. Assumed, as usually, so often, it works out that when we get in our vehicle to drive from point A to point B, we safely arrive at point B, that we just expect it to be so. Fate and circumstances, however, do dictate otherwise from time to time.

So there you have it, to accept your fate is to??? Accept that one day you will die, and although in some cases it appears one knows what it is that will kill them, that is, of course, just assumed to be so, but circumstances and life may dictate something different. Makes it really hard to accept ones fate. Right now, I'm thinking I should accept my fate, as it's inevitable I must, I just don't know what it is I'm accepting. Fighting even, if by not accepting it I'm fighting for something different.

But, in the end, all one can do is accept one's fate. All I know about my fate is that I will live, then eventually die. I'll accept that, and make the most of the living part. In reality, isn't that all any of us really know, and isn't it all any of us can really do? Live while alive and not worry about fate in the end. Fate's unavoidable, otherwise it wouldn't be fate ;) Live life.