Life is full of twists and turns, with too
much change and too little permanence, and too unpredictable. Just when you
thought you’ve figured it all out, the world turns upside down. Just when
you’ve readied yourself for changes about to come, it settles down and quiets
itself. It makes planning your life both skill and luck.
What makes living in this world quite
interesting is that even if you don’t have any choice where and how you start
out, you’ll never be quite sure where you’ll end up.
No one, obviously, had any choice whose
parents they will be born from. You weren’t allowed to choose which country to
be born at, or what time or which conditions. We were just brought here, into
this world by some universal scheme that could be attributed to combination of
exchange of genes, chance encounters, long-winded decisions; and for some
people, divine intervention. Whether you want it or not, or whether it was due
to some accidental online dating or arranged marriage, you were brought here
without your permission nor any input on the matter. Although so much more
complicated, it is like playing a game of cards. You are given a set of cards
when you start. Those set of cards are drawn from chance or skills of the host’s
hands – you having nothing else to do but to accept. We may start out with a
ton of privileges – in a rich a powerful family, or we may start out with
almost nothing but a name.
Does it matter how or where you start?
Quite frankly, it does. It determines your
course and how you act on it. How you start determines a great deal of the kind
of life you would lead and what type of person you can become. It isn’t the
only factor, but it does play a large role. Your chances in life starts the
moment you are born, your set of cards already laid at you waiting to be
played. The game of uncertainty for your own time in this world begins here.
Even saying that is an irony, for ‘your own time’ isn’t quite your own. You
share this world with so many others trying to gain their own piece of the
puzzle – therefore you share your time and life with them as well.
It may or may not take some great will and
effort to veer out of the course laid at your feet, depending on so many
things. It always depends on so many things, never on just you or one other
factor around you. It’s always a combination of them. At the least though, the
possibility of carving out your own path is always there. It is never
completely out of your hands.
Your chances of changing the course of your
life may sometimes be limited but they are always there. Though things might sometime
seem dim and constrained, you always have a chance. That chance may even be the
same as when you think you have all the luck in the world. Sometimes it just
needs a little bit of faith and open-mindedness.
The beauty of it all is that you’re never
certain – not about life, or how you go through it and not even death. The key
is to accept all possibilities. Who
knows, you might not be happy with what you’ve always wanted but you’ll be in
what you’ve always despised.
When we start to consider these things and
someone asks what your life is going to be and how it’s going to turn out, the
probable best answer would often be:
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