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“The ordinary man has always been sane because the ordinary man has always been a mystic. He has permitted the twilight.
He has always had one foot in earth and the other in fairyland. He has always left himself free to doubt his gods; but (unlike the agnostic of to-day) free also to believe in them. He has always cared more for truth than for consistency. If he saw two truths that seemed to contradict each other, he would take the two truths and the contradiction along with them. His spiritual sight is stereoscopic, like his physical sight: he sees two different pictures at once and yet sees all the better for that. Thus he has always believed that there was such a thing as fate, but such a thing as free will also.” G.K. Chesterton
I believe in Destiny when it suits me, or when it could hurt someone’s feelings to admit that I don’t.
Ofcourse, it was fate when my husband and I met. The thought he might have fallen in love with another woman , as pretty, as smart, as witty as I want to make myself sound here right now, it’s a thought I cannot bear, because this is what he would expect me to say, I think.
Was it destiny, or plain luck, perhaps neither, just hard work on our end to make a marriage and love work over so many years?
Was it my destiny to become a stubborn, outspoken female, my fate to see further sometimes, to be so often on the wrong, right side? I’ll never know, and quite frankly, I don’t care.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. Gilbert K. Chesterton.
This is so up my alley, fate as punishment, clever thought. “Sorry, human, you didn’t do your part, now you have to deal with THAT.
I love it, it’s a thought-provoking concept. It’s as good as the idea to have a foot in fairland at all times, which would explain the unicorn in our living room.
Not believing in fate/destiny. Perhaps that was my destiny after all.
I don’t see how it is possible to have a predetermined path with fate/destiny. There are so many possible outside factors that you have no control of that will change things – from a sudden pop up storm on a park path with no umbrella to the rises in random violence all over the country. I don’t see how it can all be destined to happen. A well thought out post!
I don’t know if I believe in fate exactly, but I do believe there are some things you can’t change. And maybe that’s fate.
That’s a good way to look at it.
Good sense