Friday, January 06, 2006

Not Messing with Fate

How does one know what fate has been reserved for them? We see opportunities and challenges everywhere we turn. Some opportunities we take. Others, we shun. The same for challenges. Hence our eternal gravitation from fulfillment to disenchantment, and back to fulfillment again, as we navigate life's contours. While opportunities are welcome, they are not as exhilarating as challenges. Imagine that feeling of accomplishment when you last surmounted what you considered a Herculean challenge. While you might have felt one with Hercules, what if that challenge had not been yours for the taking and that fulfillment eventually led you down the path of disenchantment.

In the grand scheme of things that is an oxymoron, because the triumph over one challenge endows you with the fortitude to vanquish the next- which is bound to be a little more difficult. So my advise to anyone would be to take life in stride. In the eternal crossroads of life, we know not our fates, until the journey comes to an end in the arms of fate. Every challenge is yours for the taking and every opportunity, the product of a challenge long gone...

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