It’s been a little more than a week since school ended, but the lessons from the two books we read during Bunje English haven’t stopped floating around in my brain. Two main ideas that keep coming back to me are: “That which you manifest is before you” and the idea of fate/”Maktub” (“it is written”) along with having a personal legend. I’m probably looking at it the wrong way, but lately I’ve had a bit of trouble reconciling these concepts. Allow me to explain:
“That which you manifest is before you” has always made sense to me; you have the power to create your own success, or, conversely, failure, depending on your outlook and effort. But then fate… I like to think that we are all part of some greater plan and that everything that happens has a reason for happening. But if this is the case, are we really manifesting what was meant to be anyway? I’m not sure. I tend to think that fate is flexible, so though something may be “written”, we can wander off the path that was “meant to be” or stray from our personal legends and rewrite our destinies. For instance, in the Alchemist, some of the characters (e.g. the baker and the crystal merchant) ignored their personal legends and ended up not living to their full potential. Same almost went for Santiago when he considered remaining at the oasis instead of continuing to the Egyptian Pyramids to pursue his personal legend.
So here lies my question: Should you just say “if event x is meant to happen, it’ll happen”, or should you go out and try to make it happen? If you want to manifest event x, how do you know that’s the right thing to do? How do you know when to trust fate and just go with the flow?
I hope you understand my blabbering, and if anyone feels like taking a break from summer and offering an opinion or two, please do! :) It’s starting to get lonely here!
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ReplyDeleteI believe wholeheartedly, undoubtably, indubitably in the principle of “that which you manifest is before you.” Not only that, I believe everyone should believe in this principle as well. I believe that problems arise when events are attributed to fate. If events are seen retrospectively as being results of fate, then their earthly causes lose significance and are less cared for. Worse, if events are predicted to result from fate, especially negative events, then the ability and/or perceived ability to change those events diminishes greatly. People can only get lazier and more careless when they think they're losing control, unless, of course, they can control how much control they're losing(but that's not the case here). I believe that people should always strive to be prepared and cautious for the future. I only “trust fate and just go with the flow” when the flow is working for me and going in the direction I want to go. But even then, I still need to constantly make sure it's working for me (I'm not a very trusting person) so I can always be that much more confident in the flow. I want to be able to fall asleep and know that the flow is going to carry me to, say, Narnia, when I wake up and not, say, Mrs. Baird's class.
kyle. you didn't make the word count. it was 450 words. next year didn't even start yet and you already failed it. GOOD JOB.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the more you try and make things happen, the longer it will take them to happen. If event x is supposed to happen, it will. However, it has to be under the correct circumstances that is was meant to happen under in order to happen. So, unless the circumstances are you forcing it to happen, event x won't happen until it is mean to happen... Get me?
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