I have never believed in fate, kismet, destiny or any of this crap. Being agnostic, I often refuse to comment on the existence of God, or even that 'supernatural force' that some people claim to have experienced. I am not entirely atheist--I just refuse to believe. Moreover, I am fairly tolerant towards the temple-going/church-going/mosque-going/synagogue-going worshippers (provided I am not compelled pray in any of these places). I often think that some of us confuse psycogology with, well, life. There is almost always a scientific explanation for things that do occur, and if there isn't a scientific explanation, there soon will be one.
Fate, however, is something I have been forced to believe in. By this, however, I don't believe that there exists a book with your entire life mapped out for you, and that you will tread on the path that is written in the 'Holy Book.' No. Not that, though I am sure that our ancestors have hastened to believe in this concept of 'destiny' or 'fate').
What I believe in, however, is entirely different. Contrary to Paulo Coelho's philosophy as elucidated perfectly in his most inspiring book, 'The Alchemist', which states that man is the author 0f his life, I believe that there is only so much one can do to make things happen. When all possibilities are exhausted and you don't find any way out, maybe you just deserve what you get. This, I will not attribute to anything else.
Experiences teach you to believe in things you had never believed in before. They harden you, toughen you, and break the fragile exterior that often beholds a ton of strenght that you never new existed. They teach you to hope, not expect, to have faith, and just believe. And to quote my Political Science teacher, "They teach you to be grateful that you probably aren't one of the children in Somalia who are so famished that they devour rats."
And so, on my quest for that 'something' I've been looking for, I shall thank those people who were with me once, and the fact that they've decided to move on to better things shall not bother me, as I've decided to move on to. Maybe it is how it always was.
