Life is seemingly unfair but just. Right? Fate, Karma, Destiny, God's Divine Plan. Throughout my life I've had moments where I have had regrets and wishes that things were "different". Yet, after a slight moment of reflection, I have always come to the same conclusion. No matter how horrible life seems, all events lead to something further down the line. For example, if I had not one through every one of the difficult periods of my life, I would not have had the most wonderful periods that have followed.
You hear people, upon occasion, ask the question, "If you could do anything differently, what would you do?". I have always answered the same way. Nothing. I would not change anything. Even going to prison. Even being homeless on more than one occasion. I would not change those horrible instances in my life for anything. If I went back in time and changed any one thing of any significance, I would never have met and married my wife. I would never have had my son. I would not trade those for anything. No matter how hard things are or have been.
What does this all mean? Is there such thing as Fate? Where no matter what choices we make we will always have the same outcome? If I had made all the "right" choices, I would still have married my wife and had my son? Karma... Did I make that many bad decissions early on to warrant all the hard times I've had? Was I destined to suffer throughout my life and have enough "good times" to kep me going? Now the big one. Does God have a Divine Plan for me that is using all the pain and suffering to make me stronger for something in the future?
Is it all a matter of our personal beliefs, the search for the "reason" all the different things in life happen? Or is it just a matter of "shit happens"? I guess my answer to the question of changing the past answers my method of belief.
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