Day Twenty Eight

DAY TWENTY EIGHT
Fate

Fate is our way of understanding, “what happens in life happens for a reason, and what doesn’t, doesn’t.” We’ve all said that and heard that countless times in our lives. It’s because it’s true. It’s a way of describing causality based on the tools available to us. Have you ever tried, desperately and ultimately in vain to make something happen that just didn’t, couldn’t happen? You try and try and try but it just won’t work. At the end of the day, we chalk it up to, “it just wasn’t meant to be”. But on the flip side, how easily, when we look back, does the opposite happen? When we say instead, “it was meant to be,” how much more smoothly do those events occur? Much more. As if there was no other way. That is what fate is. Everything necessary to make said event occur was present. What makes the concept of fate even more interesting is being able to see this thread in our lives. To see what tools are available, how they work, and what they can produce. To see the constituent parts is to see the end product in many instances. It’s like a recipe. If we have all the ingredients and the desire to make something out of them, it’s simple. We just make it. We turn each ingredient (or cause in this example) into a whole comprised of each part (or an event). So to see “behind the scenes,” so to speak, is to better anticipate events occurring. Developing this knowledge, especially when you “tune in” to the frequencies of what will work and won’t work, will make your life so much easier, much more fluid. To keep the analogy running, if you try to bake a cake out of celery, peanuts, garbage bags, and toothpicks, well, you’re not going to get a cake, try as you might. So, knowing what is available to you, to others, and to any event you wish to have occur, will help you understand what is possible and what is not. So if all you have is celery, peanuts, garbage bags, and toothpicks, don’t try to bake a cake. If you want to bake a cake, get the right ingredients. If you don’t have them, attract them.

See, you thought I was going to talk about pre-determinism and destiny, didn’t you? So did I! I’ll discuss those topics later.

Today’s task: the key here is to look back at events in your life that worked flawlessly and those that went disastrously and identify the differences between the two. What did you have when it worked without a hitch, and what didn’t you have when it all went south? A square peg doesn’t fit easily into a round hole. Know what you’ve got, what you need, and what you want and you’re all set.

Peace.