destiny

Plato once said: No man can escape his own destiny. Is this true?
Destiny - an interesting word and I really don't think to be mistaken with Fate. The definition in the dictionary is the seemingly inevitable or necessary succession of events that will happen to any person or anything. In our life time we very often ponder what the differences are between fate and destiny. Why is that some of us are fortunate to live long and wonderful lives while others die young? Why are some people so wealthy and others destitute and penniless? Some people believe it is karma that determines our destiny in this life. What we did in our previous life, determines the kind of life we will live now. Many people believe our fate and destiny are the same. This is not at all true. Destiny and fate are however, closely entwined. Fate is what happens to us at the end of our lives. Our fate is that final moment when we take our last breath. For some their fate will be to die in an act of violence, in a car crash, from cancer or asleep in bed. Can we change our fate? The answer is "no". Your fate is simply that final moment in your life; when your life ends. But then there is destiny. Can we control our destiny? The answer is both "yes" and "no". Destiny is the journey we take in our lives and fate is that final moment when the journey ends. How we are raised, life experience, and free will, help us to determine our destiny. Our destiny is determined by many different factors.Because a life experience affected you, you chose to make it part of your destiny. We must make decisions every day. Sometimes, those decisions can be fatal.That is when your destiny became your "fate".There are extraneous variables that are beyond our control that do affect our destiny and fate. A car accident, an earthquake, a shooting, and illness are a few examples of things that we have no control over. These extraneous variable can change our destiny and if we are fortunate enough to survive; reshape our destiny. So are we to truly believe that even on a day-to-day basis we have the autonomy that God gave us, the right to choose right from wrong, the right to make our own decisions that this all is false and it is all mapped out for us anyway?we should then take charge of our own destiny. Even if destiny is determined on a religious scale then is this not choosing the right path that God wanted us to follow to reap rewards and not choose the path of self destruct? If destiny is not a divine concept then we can still map out our own destiny by choice.
What if you were to totally take charge of your destiny and, once and for all, create the life you were born to live?What if you were to uncover the habits and beliefs that have been causing you to self-sabotage in the past?
By taking charge of our destiny we need to have absolute certainty, empower ourselves, belief and a vision of what we want our destiny to be. This revelation then means that on a day-to-day basis the decisions we make can either have us on course or if we stray even just a little send us in a completely different direction than to where we want to end up. This is very much like any sailor setting sail for his destination, if he was to stray a millimetre off and continue he would not arrive at his destination. This is how close we all are to the destiny we wish to achieve, small changes can make a difference.If our destiny was predetermined or a design of our past or present lives then I would not believe that individuals such as Oprah Winfrey and Tony Robbins would have reached the heights they have. They visualised their destiny and pro-actively kept on track until they achieved it. Through failure however does come success if you learn the lessons brought before you.
Life will always throw us challenges and these are life lessons for us to gain knowledge and power from. I do believe however that we have the power to predetermine our own destiny and even if we do go off track a little we have the freedom to choose to get right back on route. So I don't believe that destiny makes us who we are but we make our own destiny.For Destiny is more then just a six letter, it's a way for us tofind our being. Where when circumstances happen beyond our control, it fills us with wonderment. We wonder if it's our fate, our destiny, but we shouldn't question it. For God has a plan for each and every one of us. Destiny is something that we believe in or we don't, something that gives us hope. For without hope we have no heart, and we don't feel, if we feel then we know that we are alive. It's our destiny that will bring us to the very thing that we are running from, and know that's in our destiny to cross the path that we tread upon.
It is great to imagine what our destiny is going to be in life. Are we destined for great things? Our fate however, is something that we would all like to push to the back of our minds, at least until that fateful day.