Is it fate or something more?

Fate: The development of events beyond a person's control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power.

This is a heavy word. A word that is hard to invest in. A word that can make you question everything around you. A word that has the power to destroy. This word hangs on the tongues of many and often ends up making each of us wonder if what we are doing is our fate....

Synonyms for fate include:

Chance: The possibility of something happening.

Destiny: The events that will necessarily happen to a particular person of thing in the future.

Kismet: Destiny, Fate

Serendipity: The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.

I could go on and on....but I think you get the picture. These are unseen words. They are words that we as humans cannot make happen. This is probably one of the hardest things to accept. The fact that we cannot alter or change or influence our future is something hard to understand.

You are probably beginning to wonder why on Earth I have chosen to talk about this today, but things are happening in my life that I have no control over, which made me think....Fate? Destiny? What is this?

The Eastern cultures have a belief that men and women are born with red string attached to the ankle of themselves and the one they are meant to be with. This is known as Red Sting of Fate. It is said that the two individuals attached to the same string are meant to be together, are soul mates, and are destined lovers regardless of time, place or circumstances. "This magical cord may stretch or tangle, but never break."

This belief is mirrored in the Western cultures with the thought of a Soulmate.....However through my research I found the back story to Soulmate, possibly you didn't know about it either. The story comes from Plato's Symposium. The belief is that humans originally consisted of four arms, four legs and a single head made of two faces. Zeus feared their power and split them in half, condemning them to spend the rest of their lives searching for the other half to complete them. 

So where do we go from here if it seems that everything is already laid out for us.....do we live the life of Fatalism and just accept that all events are predetermined and therefore inevitable? Or do we accept the possibility that maybe there is more than one Soulmate? 

Of course there are many outlooks on the ideas of each individual's future. Of course I have no right to determine what should be believed....so I guess we just keep living. We continue to wake up each morning with a smile and a good thought. I suppose that in the end, when it is all over, that we each will look back and relive our lives and we will have to decide whether it was fate, hard work or something greater. (Or maybe it all goes back to the Law of Attraction....)

“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will

fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong 

time, maybe too late, or maybe forever”

- Dave Matthews Band

Pass it around.

So, I have a couple of friends who write blogs. They are all amazing, but yesterday I was overwhelmed with the thoughts, ideas and concepts discussed. In my opinion, a great article, movie, song or blog often triggers more research and thought. 


This is exactly what her blog did. Read it here. 


The discussion of science always seem to frighten me, but add my life and what I can do into the equation and things become a little more terrifying. 


In her blog the Laws of Attraction were brought up. Although this is obviously a movie, I knew that was not what was being referred to. Instead the connection that was being made was that we as humans can basically control the things that happen around us based on our will and determination of the said thing happening. Thus, like the wonderful wikipedia definition of the Law of Attraction states, if we continue to say that we NEED more money, then that is how it will always be. Instead, we should think I WILL have more money, and so it will happen. 


This concept is beyond amazing. It is eye-opening and thought changing. Since I have read my friend's blog on Tuesday night, I have continued to change the way I think about things in my head.


Another topic discussed was Noetic Theory. I, of course, knew NOTHING about this topic, and I rushed over to wikipedia (the source of all great information). While I was there I became even more enlightened. (I know, how could that happen...weird)


That is about all i am going to say for Noetic Theory, because in my opinion, this is a topic that you need to look up. It is pretty awesome. 




So, what was I getting to?...........KARMA.


This was my first reaction to finishing an awesome intellectually stimulating blog post. 

karma: The effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation

this is not my picture.

So basically, whatever we do today, whether it be good or bad, will come back to us. Whether that be in our next incarnation, tomorrow or half a lifetime from now (that would all depend on what you believe).

I believe in Karma. I also believe that I can control most of what happens to me in my life through sending out positive thoughts into the universe. 

The universe is a vast ocean filled with numerous human desires and needs. I think that the positive ones are the ones that matter, and everything else falls into the deep black hole, whatever that may be. 

Believe what you want, and I will believe what I want, but no matter what we should constantly keep our minds turning and thinking an learning and growing. Without acknowledging these vast beliefs and ideas, how can we ever become a better person. We become a better person through both knowledge and acceptance. 

My actions are my only true belongings.  

I cannot escape the consequences of my actions.  

My actions are the ground upon which I stand.  

~Thich Nhat Hanh