Over the years there has been a growing misconception of the difference between fate and destiny and most times when people refer to fate they speak of it as an evil mistress who bid to do men evil except for those that always lay treasure at her feet, while the word destiny is an ambiguous concept thrown around with little explanation given to it. In this part of the world most especially, the word destiny is used mostly when something bad happened to someone and the usual excuse given was that it has been pre-ordained. And often time I ask pre-ordained by whom or is there a deity out there who sits around and plays chess with people’s lives and decided who is healthy and who dies of ill health and the very few who are extremely wealth and the many who remain subject to abject poverty while the entire world on the other hand is continually torn apart by war, disease and whole other issues and takes pleasure in the woes of many. And I ask is that is it fate that decides the destiny of men as a collective as well as individuals? According to ancient Greek, it was believed that fate had awesome and subtle powers to decide a man’s destiny as they assign to each man good and evil while their most obvious choice was in deciding how long a man lived. It was believed by the ancient Greeks that there were 3 Fates; Clotho, the spinner who spins the thread of life. Lachesis the measurer who chooses the lot in life one will have and measures off how long it is to be. Atropos, she who cannot be turned who at death with her shears cuts the thread of life. Looking back at it, it becomes obvious that our conception of fate and destiny are not farfetched. Fate is not a cruel mistress as many of us have believed it to be, the wise man knows that in regards to fate, he is but the master in fully capacity of his fate and there is nothing on the outside of him that has the right or the ability to determine the cause of his life and the totality of his fate because he knows with no iota of doubt that there is nothing that can determine his fate besides him/herself. The wise man knows that what the world calls fate is nothing but the externalization of his mental activities he knows that he is the master of his own fate because he is in complete control of his mental activity and that fate is but subjected to his consciousness and as such he in complete control. We speak of fate many times as if it were something foreign to or outside of ourselves, forgetting that fate waits always on our own mental conditions. A man decides his own fate through the types of thoughts he entertains consistently. Every man sits at the helm of his thought world guiding, and deciding his own fate either through negative, vacillating, and therefore weakening thought or positive, strong and hopeful thoughts, he drifts through the ocean of life deciding his own fate. Fate is not something that takes dominates and controls us outside of our own mental consent. A wise man is he that knows that while he is treading the wine press, he is sending fate on a creative march and that which he has mental treaded becomes fated to happen and it will objectify itself in his world. This is what the world calls fate and the only predicament is that many today unconsciously tread the wine press of fate, sending it on a forward creative march in the direction of the things that they do not want nor desire. It is pertinent that we understand that we are the captain of our own ship, that we determine our own fate through our predominant thoughts and self talks. We must likewise realise one principal thing, one simple truth which is that, the lack of control is an illusion consequently fate cannot be a cruel mistress outside of our individual controls. If we have meet with fate wrongly prior to one it is because we have failed to take care of our own household first and our first household are not the ones constructed by mortal or bricks rather our first household is our mind and our thoughts and a household that is divided by itself is one that will not stand.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:21:50 +0000
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