I have this really great teacher that discussed the idea of fate vs. destiny today. He explained that fate has this negative connotation while destiny is this beautiful idea that we hold in our heads, the idea that we were meant or 'created' to do something. Its like there is some kind of romance behind destiny (That is the coolest word in the world, romance). We often do not live out the destiny in our lives and live for some lesser purpose, when we live true we live according to our destiny. He explained that this is one thing that separated the Romans from the Greeks in ancient times. The Greeks saw fate while the Romans saw destiny and changed the course of history fulfilling their destiny, pretty abstract idea, but intriguing none the less.
Life can bring us to so many places. I think sometimes we look at our lives and say 'man, what happened? How did I get here?' That is a good place to be because we realize the fated, meaningless life that we are living rather than the life we are created to live. We need to get off our butts and discover the destiny that we have, I believe. My teacher talked about this in my Western Civilization class (You'll see I talk about that class a lot, its amazing!) so they are his ideas but I agree. We must have some sort of consciousness (the popular term today) rather than some mundane, predictable existence. I want to ask the question to myself every day, "would I write a book about my life? Would it challenge people for the better?" Most times I think I would say no, but there are times when I know I could say yes.
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I like the distinction between fate and destiny that you speak about. I think it is kind of like the movie "Tenacious D and the Pic of Destiny"
(I have never seen that movie and I really doubt that there is much you could learn from that movie at all, but you never know... wherever you find Truth it is still truth ya know?)
I think that your very presence in this world has changed this world for the better. You life had changed the Kingdom of God before even you knew of your own life.
If you wrote a book, I'd read it. And my life would be changed for the better because I know that God would be the one behind it.
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