- If something is meant to be…..it will be. If something is not meant to be…..it will not be. If something is meant to survive…..it will survive. If something is meant to perish…..it will perish. There is a season for everything, and we exercise only a teensy bit of control over the seasons of our lives. If this sounds like our temporal passages here on Earth are fated and largely determined in advance, well…..they are! You are absolutely correct in that deduction. Sometimes you’re the hammer and sometimes you’re the nail irrespective of your most fervent desires, and some transcendent entity far mightier than any of us puny earthlings makes that decision on a daily basis. If you don’t believe such is the case, just ask the person who “miraculously” won the Powerball lottery out of a pool of millions or, more tragically, the innocent victim who was killed by a drunk driver or some aged fossil who should’ve had their driver’s license compassionately revoked a decade ago. Fate rules; free will is a ruse on all but the most miniscule of stages. Don’t fight fate. Fighting fate is immanently stupid. Rather, learn to embrace it, willfully adapt to its vagaries on a routine basis to whatever extent you can, and practice flexibility like it is the trendiest new religion out there. To do otherwise defines both stubbornness and willful ignorance.
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