Sometimes it seems that our fate is locked in and we have no options left but is it possible that we are not being creative enough?
It’s easy to think that we are stuck with the life that has been given to us. We may have been dealt a bad hand and it can seem impossible to move up in status. There are just times when nothing seems to go right and every door is slammed shut, it’s as if everything we want is not in our hands. Is it possible that our seemingly poor fate is all be in our head?
The age old saying “The Devil made me do it” is used in reference to blaming something else for the actions that you did as a cop out for taking on the consequences of your actions. The same thing can be said for “Fate made me do it” allowing ourselves to give up and sit crying into our beers about how our fate sucks and there is nothing that we can do about it. There is something to be said for those who do not accept the fate that has been projected upon them by society. These are the people that for one reason or another have been given the lowest percentage of being able to do something with their life after all the “chips” have been counted. Whether it is the child from the inner city or a victim of an unfortunate incident these people are not projected as not being able to do much with their lives, however, they are able to become the great success stories that give other people hope for what they can do with their lives.
Even though our everyday lives may not be as dramatic we are not powerless to change the things that we don’t like about it. The sage’s children were able to make things better for themselves by just being a little creative with the cards they were dealt. A bag of rice and a cow that once offered a substandard existence to a family was turned into a means of being able to fill all of their bellies and had enough remaining to give back to those who were not as fortunate. This paved the way for something better to open up to them. We too can change our fate as well, the future is not set in stone, it is always evolving and changing based on the decisions that we make, this in turn will change the outcome for our fate.
