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“No one can
escape time. It delivers us all to the
same end.” That’s a
quote I saw in the video game Persona 3 that my daughter had me play last
night. She asked me earlier if I wanted
to play a game with her, and I said “you know I’m not any good at video games.” She replied, “oh, but you’d be good at this
game. It doesn’t require any skill.” Um, thanks?
Anyway, I loved that quote and it tied in with something that’s been on
my mind lately, and also coincides with this week’s Blogo topic.
Is life random?
And if time delivers us all to the same end, is that end the destiny we
were meant to fulfill? We cannot escape
what we were destined to do, no matter how many – or which – lifetime it takes
us.
I don’t think we’re just taking a random walk
through life. I believe our destiny,
and the timing of our physical end in the bodies we now possess, were decided
before we took our very first breath of air.
Our past, our purpose and our future are written in the stars, predetermined
by God or Fate. Many of us spend our
entire lifetime seeking our purpose in life.
Some believe they’ve found it, but perhaps others are living out that
purpose without realizing it, that they are in fact doing what they were meant
to do.
Are people born to randomly come into their
accomplishments? Or were they
hand-picked by a higher entity to achieve a specific purpose? Maybe they are born into a new beginning to
complete what they hadn’t accomplished in a past life. What if we’re not assigned to a specific
cause, but were placed on this earth to love and guide one specific person? People talk of soulmates. I have a hard time believing in soulmates in
the sense that two lovers reunite in heaven to live out eternity happily ever
after. The term “soulmate” doesn’t necessarily
have to equate to eternal romantic coupling.
Perhaps what it means to be a person’s soulmate doesn’t
have anything to do with romance, but rather to be the nurturer and lover (again,
not in a physical manner) of a person by connecting with their soul,
understanding and meeting the needs of the soul and being a constant presence
in their life throughout eternity. And through
our purpose and actions, that person– now or in a future lifetime - achieves their intended purpose. Just because we don’t see the end result doesn’t
mean things didn’t happen exactly as they were intended. Life carries on in a domino effect, but
something before us had to put that first domino into place and strategically
lay out each one. The chain of events is
not limited to what our minds accept as fact, nor does it end when our bodies
do.
We are living in this present lifetime, but I don’t
believe it’s the only one our souls know.
Every year, from January to December, we’ll have moments to
remember. As the years go by, our
minds forget a lot of those moments, but our souls never do. Whether it’s an
uncanny sense of deja-vu, or meeting someone that you instantly connect with or
swear you met before (was that really random?)
or an unexplainable yearning or soul-touching connection to a city or state or country that you’ve never been to before, perhaps there’s a reason for all of
that.
Reach
high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. If our purpose and destiny are written in the
stars, and stars lie hidden in our soul, and our soul has no beginning and no
end, then neither does our journey. It
is in us, but it is bigger than us. The
question is – is it random? It could be
that we are living out life exactly as we were meant to, we just don’t know it
yet.
© 2015 Dahlia Ramone
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This was written for Blogophilia
Week 16.8
Topic: A Random Walk
Through Life
Bonus Points:
(Hard, 2 pts) Use a
quote by Mother Teresa
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.”
(Easy, 1 pt) Include a
lyric from one of The Lettermen songs
“January to December, we’ll have moments to remember”
from the song ‘Moments
to Remember’
