Fate’s destiny

I hear no sound accept her heart that pounds,
In life’s path that’s unknown,
I feel that my energy’s blown,
But I keep going.

Because of that smile.

There isn’t much of a moment,
Where you’d find a true peace of mind,
You’re your fate’s scribe,
And you’re given set words to choose.

But you still have a choice none the less.

Each time she looks at me,
With those eyes,
And that brightest smile,
I’m reminded of peace I’d never know.

Until I let go.
-The brightest smile

Fate’s a force that we can’t stop, but we can change its course. We’ve all got our fates, but what we decide will shape our fate.

Imagine fate as this energy force that moves in a direction and doesn’t stop, the perception of its pace can be slowed down though, it’s the perception of time, which can go fast when your enjoying yourself, and go slow when your suffering, it’s a force that never stops, and constantly gives you set choices, and that’s where we make our decision on the choice we take.

We’re like scribes to our own fate, the author of it, an author who is limited by fate, yet he can still change its course greatly even with the limitations. Our choices that we make, can reduce our options or increase our options, of course its still limited as we can only do so much at one time, even with infinite resources, we ourselves are not infinite. And that’s the whole beauty of it, because of our limits, our choices are so precious, and thus what we choose really makes it more valuable.

Some people’s fate is harder to change, the force that drives that fate requires much more choices and sometimes harder choices and sacrifices to change its path. To me, destiny is a point along where your fate has traveled, and thus when your reach any point, it’s your destiny. Thus our destiny is still shaped by us, and when you think about the things we do, the people we meet, it’s often shaped by choices we take from the choices given to us.

For example, the friends you know, it is still limited to where you go, who you meet, but you still make the choices on whom you spend your time with, thus your friends are by choice. Some choices are more indirect than others, an example would be when you go a certain class assigned to you by school, it seems like you’ve not been given a choice on which class you go to, who are your classmates will be, but then if you look further, if you did not choose the course you wanted in school, you would not have gone to the classes related to that course.

So in truth, we shape our fate, and determine our destiny directly or indirectly with the choices given to us. For me, I look back at my choices offered to me, and I can understand that the people I meet, the friends I made, the lovers I’ve had, the exchanges I’ve had, the conversations, all of them, I had influenced the choices, and I appreciate the choices I’ve had and the experiences and memories that have come from it, as to me they are precious.

Someone else living my life, may not have had the same path as me, even if they started with the same fate. Fate is like a tree that branches out, it’s interconnected to other branches, and each choice we make branches out into another and another, but of course, some choices can still lead back to the same point, and some make it impossible to reach another point. Think of your choices like parallel worlds, where imagine someone who is you in a parallel making another choice, thus they move of to another path different from yours, it may lead to the same point again or may never cross, it all depends, that’s where the force of fate can be influenced to a certain extent. The only thing we can’t do is go back to another point of our fate and make a new choice, because those choices were already made and fate only moves forward, we can’t go back in time.

The fate we’re given in the start is perhaps the only thing we have no control over, but we shape it after we’re given it. There are things that are not within our ability to shape such as whom our parents are, and older family members are. At the end of the day, we still shouldn’t gripe about what we’re given because we still make choices that shape the path of our fate, whether we succeed, whether we fail, whether we meet the people who will mean a lot to us is still shaped by us, so we shouldn’t gripe about the unchangeable, and start focusing on the changeable with the knowledge that we have the power to shape our destiny.

A quote I love to repeat from the game Baldur’s gate two which is spoken by the villain Jon Irenicus, “Life is strength, you live you affect your world.” So apt, because the life we have gives us the power to shape our world, it allows us to shape our fate, our destiny and every choice is choice, even inaction is still a choice that decides our fate.

That’s why never think that life is out of your control, if you don’t choose, you will never have control, you will never have a chance, you will never use your strength, which you have right now, and you never know how much you have until you choose, what do you want your fate to be? What destiny do you want to achieve? Are you giving yourself a chance?

I remember a story once told to me,
It was over a bottle of red wine,
Atop the hood of her parked car,
Under the starlit sky so bright,
A moment I’d hold on with all my might,
It was just her voice and the night sky.
-Under this night sky