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Destiny -------
What of it?
Better
yet, What is it? What is pre-destined for everyone?
Preordained is our demise, our final breath or final
heartbeat. It cannot be avoided! What is not
preordained, scheduled, programmed, part of the
curriculum, the agenda of life, is our lifestyle and the
path we take thru life, it’s in our hands. We are not
the masters of the course outline of our early
education, but soon thereafter we become ‘old
enough’ to choose our future.
This
morning on Larry King Live is an excerpt about Elizabeth
Smart, the little Salt Lake City girl, kidnapped for 9
months and now found with a drifter.
Another
person, Richard Ricci was put in prison for this crime,
sentenced to his early death by the press. He was never
charged formally for the kidnapping but he died, in
prison, ‘accused’ [but never convicted] of a crime
he did not commit.
Mr.
Ricci, a handyman, just happened to be working at the
abode of little Elizabeth. Because of his
appearance/profile he was detained and the media [court
TV] hyped the story so much that he was deemed
guilty before any real courtroom had been chosen. He, a
homeless person had been hired supposedly to help him
out a little and was for sure in the wrong place at the
wrong time.
He
did admit to pilfering some small items and because of
his appearance and demeanor he was held in prison.
Public opinion convicted him of this ‘crime against
humanity’; his pleas for a new trial and reopening of
the case went unheard.
Was this his destiny, an
inevitable
happening?
Was it his choice of the path
of lifestyle
to blame?
Certainly
it was say the people that sentenced him to his early
demise.
Now that someone else
has been
arrested
has any one of them apologized for this horrendous
mistake?
Was it preordained that he would die in prison?
What of the religious belief that God is our
constant partner in life,
the controller of destiny, the final word in our
destiny?
Is it
because of this outlook that I am here in my apartment
right now and not in Fort Lauderdale?
Personally
I believe in myself, I believe none other than me charts
my destiny. I am the controller of my outlook on life
and I choose where I live and when I change things. I am
bound only by law and nature to do what is acceptable
and to live in a way not offensive to others. Harsh
words say the religious zealots!
Is that
a truism, a statement of decided truth?
What
of the dreams we have during our respite from the days
tumult? Are those thoughts our own or are they somehow a
message from some higher power that controls our
destiny?
Do we
remember those ‘messages’ in some remote part of our
psyche; somewhere that changes our final outlook and
responses to stimuli?
If so,
are we in control of our lives? Are we at fault in times
of severe stress, are we to blame if we lash out in pain
and cause some adverse reactions in our environment?
We are pre-programmed by accepted methods all of our
juvenile years, those times according to the courts are
the domain of other than ourselves and ‘they’ are
responsible for our adverse actions. We become ‘our
own person’ at puberty? We don’t have an inkling of
real life or the instincts to promote one before we are
called ‘adult’? If there is a God, a Superior Being,
or Force to be reckoned with at some later date, where
is he/it during those years of upbringing?
Why is
it ‘our problem’ when we falter, why is it not the
fault of our mentors, the forces that have chosen our
destiny?
A
doctor in the states predicted that my maximum available
lifetime was 2 years because of my advanced emphysema. I
moved to Costa Rica and now the prediction has changed
to 20! Is that called ‘divine intervention’ or did I
change my destiny?
Please tell me! What think ye?
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