The world operates as a series of circles that are invisible, for they extend to the upper air. Fate is where these circles cut into the earth. Since we cannot see them, do not know their content, and have no sense of their width, it is impossible to predict when these cuts will slice into our reality. When this happens, we call it fate.
Fate is not a chance event but one that is inevitable; we are simply blind to its nature and time. We are also blind as to how fate connects one occurrence to another.
- Batuk, from James A. Levine's The Blue Notebook
We live life in moments. I think that's why photographs mean so much to us: they have the power to wordlessly capture single moments that would otherwise be impossible to isolate. Because while we live life in moments, each moment glides seamlessly into another, the way each word I write connects immediately to the next. Individually, there is some meaning; it all comes alive only when read in full. A missing word, like a missing moment, will render the whole incomplete. At the same time, it is impossible for us, the vessels of these moments, to know what each has in store for us, and to what other event it will connect.
Fate is what finds these moments and brings them together. As the writer, I am Fate to the words on this page--only I know where they lead, and what each word's role is in the final story. Without me they mean nothing, just a series of scratches and blurs clumped together in paragraph form.
Fate, or God, or Karma, or the Force, or whatever it is one might believe it to be: it pulls us together, makes us whole. It may take a day or a year or ten or twenty before we realize what is really going on, but I think every action we do translates into something greater further down the line. And that's why it's important for every moment to stand out for us. We ought to treat every instant, every event in which we find ourselves entangled, the way we would a photograph--we should put our best foot forward in it, because it will be recorded, and it will come back to haunt us.
Welcome to the wonderful world of Inside My Head--where nothing is as it seems and all the words are pretty.
as fate would have it, I just opened your blog exactly a minute after you posted this. :) thanks for letting us in your head and letting some of the pretty words out.
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ReplyDeleteHow sad:(..But that's the reality,we must face it.I love this blog, even though it is sad when we think of it..After i red the blog,i smile.I realized that no one knows what's the purpose of God on us...This blog opened up my mind.Thanks Jessica for sharing this wonderful blog..
ReplyDeleteIn a time where everything seems to pass by, it is so refreshing to discover someone who stops and steps back from it all to go through the corners of her mind and share her thoughts.
ReplyDeleteYou remind us that, yes, we are still human.
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ReplyDeletegreat blog jessica! this is why your my inspiration. :) i am reading a book entitled: "the secret to teen power" its the teen version of the first book: "the secret" im 15 years old by the way. :) its about the law of attraction. i think for me its like the same as fate. what we think becomes things. if we feel good or think posotive, more positive things we will get. if we think negatively, negative things we also get. its like we control it.
ReplyDeletekeep writing jessica! and ill keep reading. take care! :)
Logical Chaos says:
ReplyDeleteWe live in a pixelized world, indeed. Our first kiss, the birth of a baby, our first car and other significant moments in our lives. Our brain can only handle a finite number of memories. Slowly but surely they fade away when we mature. This is why we need photographs and our stories so much. A nostalgic library telling the world we mattered.
Very metaphysical.
ReplyDeleteI agree with almost everything if not everything about this insight of yours. And may I add that everything, whether we call it fate, chance or destiny, happens, is happening a will happen for a purpose and reason. And as one of my favorite songs back in highschool, Eversince the world began says in it's line... "and we're another peice of the puzzle, just another part of the plan" implies, we are all like in a spider web... touching one another's lives, one way or the other. :) -saldyU
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