I won't lie: I believe in destiny.
Yeah, sure, I also believe in free will. I think that there's this path that many people are given the opportunity to follow, maybe even most people, and I think that almost all of them turn away from it, in varying degrees. Some do so intentionally, and lie to themselves about it afterwards, some do so in small ways that they never realize, others do it in major, important moments that they can't deny later on in their lives, that haunt them forever as what if's that come bac to them and whisper small fragments of their unspoken history to them, and others live their potential out, and die smiling, the curves of their mouthes holding those little secrets that the rest of us will never know and that have shaped the small part of the world in ways that the rest of us will never know. God really is in the details.
The funny thing is, these destinies tie together in such an intricate knot that the acceptance or denial of them comes to vast and important similarities, for instance: I honestly think, call me a complete lunatic if you like, that a man built a million-dollar home on a mountain so that I could stand in it's kitchen a few times, over the course of a few weeks that I was working for him, hauling lumber around a mountain, and view the glorious landscape that stretched all around me, the roads and the rock and the woods and the houses, everything that knotted together and made me hold my breath while I looked at it all and worked, and still work, at not letting it go. It told me that there was something important there.
But it wasn't just for me. That place was for him that built it, and for all the others that would stand on those places and consider how wonderful it was, and how much it had to offer. These things, they all blend and bleed together until we recognize them for what they are. At least I think so.
This could be ranting, but I think it's more than that. It's a way of understanding that, really, despite the fact that we try to understand the world in terms of how it relates to us, it's constantly trying to find ways to tie it all together, and help us see the world in terms of all of us. At least, I think so. Maybe.
Yeah, sure, I also believe in free will. I think that there's this path that many people are given the opportunity to follow, maybe even most people, and I think that almost all of them turn away from it, in varying degrees. Some do so intentionally, and lie to themselves about it afterwards, some do so in small ways that they never realize, others do it in major, important moments that they can't deny later on in their lives, that haunt them forever as what if's that come bac to them and whisper small fragments of their unspoken history to them, and others live their potential out, and die smiling, the curves of their mouthes holding those little secrets that the rest of us will never know and that have shaped the small part of the world in ways that the rest of us will never know. God really is in the details.
The funny thing is, these destinies tie together in such an intricate knot that the acceptance or denial of them comes to vast and important similarities, for instance: I honestly think, call me a complete lunatic if you like, that a man built a million-dollar home on a mountain so that I could stand in it's kitchen a few times, over the course of a few weeks that I was working for him, hauling lumber around a mountain, and view the glorious landscape that stretched all around me, the roads and the rock and the woods and the houses, everything that knotted together and made me hold my breath while I looked at it all and worked, and still work, at not letting it go. It told me that there was something important there.
But it wasn't just for me. That place was for him that built it, and for all the others that would stand on those places and consider how wonderful it was, and how much it had to offer. These things, they all blend and bleed together until we recognize them for what they are. At least I think so.
This could be ranting, but I think it's more than that. It's a way of understanding that, really, despite the fact that we try to understand the world in terms of how it relates to us, it's constantly trying to find ways to tie it all together, and help us see the world in terms of all of us. At least, I think so. Maybe.
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But I don't give a shit what other people believe, so long as it doesn't impact my own life. I think there are lots of great by-products of faith, there are just as many or more atrocities.