Tuesday, June 15, 2010
WHAT IS DESTINY TO YOU???
Thats the question i SMS-ed a few of my friends. And these are some of the answers i got:
"Doing well in my A levels" - Sara, my junior
"Destiny to me is like religion Either you believe in or you don't. Or rather believe in its existence or you don't. It's quite an abstract thing to be honest and at this moment in my life, i don't believe i have a destiny" - Aunty Shini
"The end of fate. The last place i reach before death." - Prasana
"Ambiguous, perhaps." - Sivakangai
"My future path that either i choose it to be the way i want or leave it as how the god has written it" - Dappa
"I don't wish to talk about it. Sorry" - Deva
"Something i don't really believe in" - Puvan
followed by a "what is destiny in the first place?" (isn't that what i asked u!!!)
"I feel destiny is something we decide by what we do in our present." - Praveena, my junior
"Destiny is what all your choices in life lead up to." - Seanie
"Destiny is something uncontrollable that happens to you. It's either good or bad. And when it appears you can either embrace it or blame your life on it" -Tanisha
"I think there's no fixed definition. I think it's just fate." - Meena, my junior
"My personal definition is where you reach after death. Also how your death is gonna be. Destiny." -Sara
Yes some of the answers re indeed funny. Haha. Well, there were a few other, one word answers, simply saying "FATE!". And there were a few others who asked me back, what destiny is to me. Well, i simply told them that i haven't got the chance to collate my thoughts so it's hard for me to say anything now. Most were rather surprised by the question. Yes, i know it's really damn random, that outta nowhere someone asks you such thing. Haha. It's just me, for those who know me - someone who thinks alot and aloud via my blog.
Well, why suddenly thoughts about destiny? All thanks to the movie "Prince of Persia". It's a good movie. But im not here to talk about the movie, which i would recommend people to watch though. Although the word destiny wasn't the essence of the movie, the two times that i heard it appear in the movie started my mind going!
There will be this particular scene towards the end of the movie where the heroine would be holding on the the hero who will clinging onto the edge of the cliff with all the sand flying around. She will be forcing the hero to let go off her hand so that the hero can can do what he is supposed to do and she say "it's your destiny, not mine!". She may have said this because in the earlier part of the movie, the hero says something like "we can create our destiny". Soooo... What is destiny???
I checked the web for the meaning and got two:
something to which a person is destined
a predetermined course of events often held by an irresistable power
So... Is that what the general perception of DESTINY seems to be?
Like what Darshu had said, its a rather abstract thing. Which of course, requires more in depth thinking if you want to draw a clear line and define destiny. But well, as much as how people try to define love, is destiny equally that hard? I would say it is harder! Haha.
I can simply define love - 'Love is Bullshit". Something which many people around me tend to disagree. well, i don't blame them. It's just me and the way i think.
But destiny... Is it that easy to pen down one's own destiny? Is it something that we cannot control and like what the web says, something controlled by a greater power? Or are we merely confusing faith with destiny? Can destiny be seen as a goal? A vision to which we look up to, to steer our journey of life? Or is it something too deep for the human mind to understand, so just leave it to the higher being?
Destiny... To me, destiny is an impossible possibility.
¶ 7:26 PM 
