Destiny? Outcome? Providence?
What could it be?
It could be worse. You could be bored.
But hopefully, right now, we are all busy with something. Or gainfully engaged in something that interests us.
Where are we right now with things?
What do we do?
What are those things that fill our hearts or interest us?
Sometimes, these things appear out of nowhere. Like a morel that springs up in the middle of some damp forest floor. It just appears out of nowhere.
Or a cloud floating by that looks like Snoopy eating ice cream. It appeared out of nowhere.
I once worked with a bartender who liked to be a filled-up pourer. She always tried to fill the glass exactly to the top of the rim. I told her this wasn’t good for anyone. Not the waitresses who had to carry the drink, nor for the patron, who had to lift the thing from the table to the their mouth.
Another time, I met a woman at a fair. She was an apple carver. She used to make these little shrunken apple-headed women. That lady spun the apples in her hand as she whacked away at it. She wasn’t a corer. That was always left in. But by the end, she would whittle out some perfect little figure from any apple.
Now, I give you these two examples because, I bet anything, Angie didn’t think about being a filled-up glass pourer when she was in the third grade. And the same for Alice, who probably never once thought of carving apples for all of her youth.
But later in life, these interests had sprung forward and they both worked hard at these things.
When I was in the fourth grade or so, I dreamed of winning seven gold medals at the Olympics. Of course, it never happened. I didn’t think I’d grow up to write a blog for fifteen years running, each and every day. But there was no such thing as a blog when I was in my youth. Or, for a long time beyond.
Maybe sometimes, our interests choose us.
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“Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on what you really want.” — Jim Carrey
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“Destiny is the push of our instincts and the pull of our experiences.” — David Mitchell
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“What we think, we become.” — Buddha
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What we choose, or are chosen to do
