our lives are streams flowing into the same river towards whatever heaven lies in the mist beyond the falls. find the joy in your life… close your eyes and let the waters take you home.
–the bucket list

this is very interesting! life is full of uncertainties talaga. decisions are part on our daily living, and individual beliefs matter a lot when we talk about destiny. it’s either we belive in fate or we have faith, which is a struggle itself. hay… life…

but in times of trouble, i ask help from God. we all need a little help every now and then

eks, are you succumbing to the idea the life is governed by fate? is that really you? haha

kaka, i do ask for His guidance. i cannot say that one view is utterly right. i just could not reconcile the simultaneous occurrence of free will and fate. i feel i understand it, but then words fail me.

I’d like to believe in fate because it’s easy. But that’s just the part of me that tends to romanticize things. If you think about it, we tend to associate destiny with something good, even grand, because how terribly unfortunate would it be if someone is predestined for doom?

You know Takeshi’s Castle? I remember there’s a game there wherein the contestant will have to step through pieces of rocks to reach the other side of the “pond”. Only he/she doesn’t know which ones are styrofoam “rocks”. Most of the time I look at life that way. It’s all about survival; it’s all in your hands, but because you don’t make the rules, you’ll never know what you’re going to get. Now that may sound like destiny, but I’d like to think of it more as the interconnectedness of life - the sum of the internal (yourself) and the external (your world) [or maybe the product? i’ve always sucked at Math, he he].

I tend to associate destiny with something not good. you’re right, if it were true, how terribly unfortunate.

i also think that there’s not one thing that determines the “path,” like your internal and external. but, you know, it can sometimes be frustrating when you felt you did everything, and there’s one force that voids them all, and you wish it is all in your hands.

the insignificant thread is not insignificant at all. without that one thread the weave will lose its pattern and may not be even called a weave at all. i think we’re all significant.

this is so deep ha, hehe… will commewnt really well on this kung kaya ng utak ko, for now, blangko talaga siya… ingats na lang muna!

i though you were already decided? i guess there are things that make you “undecided”.

i’ve read this somewhere: “I’ve learned that sometimes, we must use our hearts for the biggest decisions that we have to make”. so go where your heart tells you to go.

[kayni] it sounds like the saying, “hindi mabubuo ang isang daan kung walang piso.”

[sheng] hehe. kaw din, ingat ka!

[kg] i know it sounds like this is really about me and the circumstances that surround me (hehe), but this post is not about me per se. these are just thoughts that have always been on my mind that I’ve been trying to understand. in any case, it’s nice if you can make decisions through your heart.

I’m a believer of this: Fate = Decisions. I actually drafted a post about this. I’m yet to publish it. =)

Life is filled with uncertainty, because nobody knows what the future holds (parang kanta!). But everything revolves around the decisions and choices that we make. And it’s best that we make a good one. But that doesn’t always happen. We stumble. We make mistakes, sometimes small, oftentimes big. There’s no real formula. Trial and error.