by hapy | 12:25 AM

Fate, destiny, vision, or whatever you might call it, can lead to great failure.  I don't mean to discount the whole concept of such ideas, but rather the realization of them.  Fate can only be realized in hindsight.  One can only hope that their choices and chances taken, along with a bit of luck, will lead to something that they can look back with contentment. 

Often, I hear people serve up fate to defend their lack of reason.  It is far too easy for someone to go 'allin' forcing the decision upon someone/something else.  From desperation, desire, want, or need, fate is used to justify and motivate ourselves.  In our first-person view of our lives, everything is determined by chance and luck.  Your deepest wants and desires, despite fate-like coincidence, is just that and nothing more.  

More often than not, it's coincidence.  You won't find destiny in such trivial matters. 

I realize that there are a lot of holes the size of NC potholes in this thought, but this is how I feel at the moment. 

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