Fate tells stories
It was a new day yesterday, but it’s an old day now! – Jethro Tull
No, this is not concerned with stories, nor is it concerned with fate (as a non-established but widely acclaimed part of reality). Also the font used to originally punch-in these words was called ‘Comic Sans MS’. But there was no explicit intent to make this piece of electronic penmanship sound anywhere near comic, except where I thought you might feel like screaming ‘so what the fuck are you yapping about?’
This discussion is in fact about reality and our approach towards embracing it, particularly when things don’t work the way we desired them to. I just went through one such brush. Although I was not hurt as much as to complain, I stood witness to a truckload of events passing by, grazing me a little and apparently inadvertently, knocking down a few others who usually stood beside me. From where I stood I could not see any driver on the truck, so for want of a target to vent my displeasure I chose to write down the discussions as they unfolded within myself.
Facing reality has been as elusive as catching eel with oiled hands. Primarily because it has been defined differently by different people and secondly because our reactions to the events that represent reality are often off-the-cuff/intuitive/instinctive/whateverelse. The human mind being as obsessed as it is with fitting patterns to any natural phenomenon or behavior has not spared reality either. This attempt at fitting cause-effect relationships have had one great fall-out though. They have given us the wealth of fables that we often enjoy during our innocent years and conveniently forget as we grow up bartering our way through life trading our innocence for wordly knowledge. The other significant contribution has been the concept of fate.
Fate has been an excellent form of ‘logicizing’ reality, feeding on the phenomena such as karma sometimes (as depicted in the Matrix trilogy or in the Mahabaratha). So I thought that fate might be the closest cousin to reality to do the stunt double while going through the trial by fire that I'm attempting here. There is one problem though, when we try to discuss the fate-reality relationship or its absence. There are also a bunch of closely guarded beliefs that will come under the microscope. For instance, intuition will now have to stand trial if fate is being tried. From one perspective, there is no intuition without fate. Well, if intuition is about knowing what’s going to happen (and therefore what decisions to take) then the ‘what’s going to happen’ should be a predetermined fact, verifiable or otherwise. Now, doesn’t that sound like the definition of fate?
To be continued.....
No, this is not concerned with stories, nor is it concerned with fate (as a non-established but widely acclaimed part of reality). Also the font used to originally punch-in these words was called ‘Comic Sans MS’. But there was no explicit intent to make this piece of electronic penmanship sound anywhere near comic, except where I thought you might feel like screaming ‘so what the fuck are you yapping about?’
This discussion is in fact about reality and our approach towards embracing it, particularly when things don’t work the way we desired them to. I just went through one such brush. Although I was not hurt as much as to complain, I stood witness to a truckload of events passing by, grazing me a little and apparently inadvertently, knocking down a few others who usually stood beside me. From where I stood I could not see any driver on the truck, so for want of a target to vent my displeasure I chose to write down the discussions as they unfolded within myself.
Facing reality has been as elusive as catching eel with oiled hands. Primarily because it has been defined differently by different people and secondly because our reactions to the events that represent reality are often off-the-cuff/intuitive/instinctive/whateverelse. The human mind being as obsessed as it is with fitting patterns to any natural phenomenon or behavior has not spared reality either. This attempt at fitting cause-effect relationships have had one great fall-out though. They have given us the wealth of fables that we often enjoy during our innocent years and conveniently forget as we grow up bartering our way through life trading our innocence for wordly knowledge. The other significant contribution has been the concept of fate.
Fate has been an excellent form of ‘logicizing’ reality, feeding on the phenomena such as karma sometimes (as depicted in the Matrix trilogy or in the Mahabaratha). So I thought that fate might be the closest cousin to reality to do the stunt double while going through the trial by fire that I'm attempting here. There is one problem though, when we try to discuss the fate-reality relationship or its absence. There are also a bunch of closely guarded beliefs that will come under the microscope. For instance, intuition will now have to stand trial if fate is being tried. From one perspective, there is no intuition without fate. Well, if intuition is about knowing what’s going to happen (and therefore what decisions to take) then the ‘what’s going to happen’ should be a predetermined fact, verifiable or otherwise. Now, doesn’t that sound like the definition of fate?
To be continued.....
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