Well, people seem to talk about destiny a lot nowadays, and I wanted to get my opinion on the matter off my mind.
Destiny, in it's core, is a belief system that acts upon the thought of life having meaning. Of having some greater purpose. So when an atheist says he believes in destiny, it seems just a little weird.
Now, I am not God and I can't be the one to say that life DOES actually have some greater purpose. And even if it did, I do not see why would it be so. What can we little humans achieve that is so great?
During the time civilizations sprawled out of nowhere and then collapsed into themselves there has been nothing that the before mentioned achieved before they met their end. At least, nothing of value. Said subjectively of course.
Now I do not know where to go further with this, because I don't know what the great thing we can achieve could be. World peace? We can do that right now, and has nothing with the workings of a single man. Living on other planets? Still has no meaning for the little person of today.
The only thing I could think of is building to a greater consciousness, to an extension of the reality we see every day. Still, this will not begin with a single man. If it will, it already has.
Destiny is a powerful word. It's kind of a religion in its base form. Because people find hope in it. They feel like there's something greater waiting for them on the other side.
Hope will always be one of the most powerful emotions a person can feel. Because no matter how hard the times, if your hopes are high enough, you will not give up.
You will live to try to find the thing you promised yourself.
I understand this. But why make things up? Why set yourself up for something that is in the future when you should live today?
Why let yourself live in misery fueled by hope for a better tomorrow?
I have already talked about this, today is the day to act. Not to hope.
Hope is only worthwhile when you have set the wheels in motion of the thing you want to accomplish.
Think of it this way; ''I hope that the car I'm fixing will work when I'm done.'' instead of; ''I hope my car will work the next time I turn the key.''
Instead of hoping to be happy some time in the future, why not do the things that make you happy? Or why not try to find something that makes you happy?
Why waste time picturing how great the world can be, instead of trying to make it a better place yourself?
I think you are too sceptic to a concept of destiny. I'm not trying to say that you should give up and hope that the destiny has prepared you something good. I'm not saying that it's all definitive, but I'm saying that it is meant to be. And Stipe, aldo one person can't achieve world peace, one person can be the spokesman and start the initiative. And I think that counts too :)
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