Reading a lot lately - came across this quote in relation to destiny, in the book ‘Leaving the World’ by Douglas Kennedy : 

The father of quantum mechanics, Niels Bohr said - “There is no way of knowing where a moving particle is given it’s detail, and thereby, by extension, we can never predict where it will go”.

Which got me thinking, probably too much, about this whole fate/destiny thing. As Bohr was saying, we know that things, us, exist, we know we are going somewhere on our little travel through life, but we have no way of knowing what that destination is… We can make choices, and imagine that the way we have been programmed will affect those choices, and some would say that that programming IS destiny, that our choices, subconscious or not, are shaping our paths to our final fate. But how can we know? How do we know that the people around us were part of the plan, that how we react to their words or actions doesn’t send us in a completely different direction? Perhaps there is a final destiny, or perhaps the only thing for certain is death. Religious people are of the mind that God has a plan for all of us, that he controls every action, encounter, acquaintance. I am more inclined to agree with Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, from the same book; 

“…it is not possible to know both the position and momentum of a particle at the same time, because the act of measuring it would disturb the system.” 

After reading all of this, I have decided that there is no more fate and destiny. No more ‘what’s for you won’t pass you by…’, no more ‘it was meant to be..’- there is only today. There is only what you decide today, how you behave today, how you live today. If there is a destiny, it is only to exist, to be present, to not hand over your life to some unknown plan, just to be here, now. Don’t wait for the adventure that is your imagined fate, today IS the adventure, and today is the only thing that is definite. 

..and today was great. 

xBlanaid

 I suppose I’m at an age now when I should know what I want to be when I grow up. I’m the kind of person who can’t do just one job. For example, I have about eh…16 projects on the go at the moment, and some people are telling me to focus, focus, focus on just one thing…you know, so I can figure out what to concentrate my energy on, so I can be good at that one thing, achieve in that one area. But,  I don’t know, is the real answer. I don’t know what I want to be, I only know what I want to do tomorrow. I want it to be different to what I did today. 

Maybe, one day, I’ll find something that I’ll want to do every single day, but how will I find it if I don’t try everything first? Maybe I’ll never be the best at anything, but I might be the best at saying yes to every new experience, and that’s good enough for me. 

x Blanaid

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