10th Feb - This Is Your Destiny



For some, 'fate' is a bi-product of religious belief, for others it's the result of faith, spirituality, or even accounted as 'chance' or 'luck'. Some dismiss it entirely, believing that every action you take directly leads to your next movement in life. But there are infinite examples of 'fate' working in action, across our universe. Perhaps one of the most mind-bending phrases I've come accustomed to incorporating in my daily philosophy is that every choice you've ever made up until this moment, has led you here.

Right now, in this second. Reading this diary. The chances are you're reading this because you know me personally. But if so, ask yourself how far back you can trace that particular path of destiny. Was it because you met me at a festival? If so, what made you attend that festival in the first place? Was it the music you like? If so, how did you first hear that music? Was it via a recommendation? Or a radio station? Why did you choose that radio station that day? Were you at work? Why did you choose that job? Because of your education? What interested you in that subject? Because of your school teacher? Why did you go to that school? If it was local, why did you live in that area? Because of a choice your parent(s) made? Why did they make that choice?




You see, depending on how deep you want to delve into this, you can trace almost everything in life back to an origin. Not all of these factors depend on your own choices, often it may be the actions or influences of others which direct you towards this path. So I find it tough to believe in anything other than 'destiny', or 'fate' if you prefer to call it that. Some philosophers have even tried to prove that all of reality - everything that ever happens, or every entity which exists - was forever fated to be as it is. This is called the doctrine of metaphysical fatalism.

Metaphysical fatalism states that there is a necessity to every actual thing, meaning our fate is to be exactly as we are, in exactly the situations that we are actually in. Fatalists acknowledge that we do not always know what is going to happen, simply that what is fated will happen, whether anyone knows about it or not. For example, I can't say I could have ever predicted you'd be reading this right now. But you are... 




... And that's fate.




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