text; un: alucard

[reposing]

Forgive me for asking such a question, but I'm in the middle of a project and I'm waiting for things to process. So I thought I might as well ask.

Your idea of "fate", should you believe in it. Does such a linear path bring you any comfort at all?

Or is it perhaps worth fighting against, if you aren't satisfied with your destiny?

Might as well have conversation on it.

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[reposing]

Perhaps then, do you think it was less fate upon you they decided, or was it expectations?

[realimperfect]

You could argue either. If you listen to certain sources, it's 'fate'. If you listen to others it may be easily predetermined by the genetics I was given and the nature that came along with it.

Every fellow citizen was a cog to the wheel in a very literal fashion, after all.

At any rate I think it's foolish to believe that there is some overarching power so overbearing as to pre-decide the course of your life for you. That would be a boring soap opera, wouldn't it?

[reposing]

I don't know. Sometimes people like predictable stories. Me, I would rather break free of those chains and pave my own way.

To not be a slave to expectations, I suppose.

[realimperfect]

Then do it.

If they are expectations you know of, that is. Take them by the horns, so to speak, and flip them.

I knew what was expected of me but I didn't want it. So I saw my chance and ran with it.

[reposing]

It's something I've considered. But it is a difficult thing to do, spitting in the face of fate.

But I will do everything in my power to do so.

[realimperfect]

No, it isn't easy.

It's terrifying, unpredictable, dark, and cold at times.
However, living in your own power is, at least to me, alluring enough to necessitate the choice.