Fate

Today, I found my old bright pink iPod nano that I got for my 13th birthday. I found it hiding beneath a dusty old picture of my grandma and I, taken in the hospital a few hours after I was born. This might seem insignificant, but finding that iPod (I looked for that thing for MONTHS) kind of got me thinking about a lot of stuff. Mostly about like fate, and destiny, and how I believe that everyone was put on this Earth for a purpose. I have no idea what my purpose is. But I know that I have one. Because why else would I be here?

I've always been a strong believer in fate and karma, and I'm not really religious so that doesn't have anything to do with it. It just makes sense to me, that if you treat someone badly, something bad will happen to you. And same for positive things, if you treat people with kindness and make it a point to do something generous and good for no particular reason, that kindness will circle back towards you. It makes sense, doesn't it?

But there's also fate. It's defined as, "The development of events outside a person's control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power." Now, I'm not really sure I believe that definition. I do think that everything happens for a reason, and that if something bad happens, it's meant to, because something else is supposed to happen after, kind of a chain of events kind of thing. Slippery Slope, if you will. (Rhetoric Devices a la Ms. Fillman) but anyway, my point is that something so small like losing that precious iPod turned out to not be a big deal at all. It sucked for a while, but it's not like I had no other way to listen to music or anything, and finding it over 2 years later made such an impact on me that I feel like it was almost supposed to happen. 

I don't know how many people out there are like me, who believes in fate and destiny and that everything happens for a reason. And at the same time, I feel like it's also kind of scary to just accept that some greater force in the world is controlling your life, but it's kind of cool to me. Like, you're not entirely in control. So it's okay if you make mistakes. Because we're humans, and I like to think we're meant to.