This I Believe

I believe in fate. I believe in the kind of fate that takes the things I did today and builds a path to tomorrow. I make my own decisions and those, in turn, play out and bring whatever consequences or blessings I deserve for making the choices that I did, but I believe that what is meant to be will eventually come to pass, whether I like it or not. So maybe I believe in karma? I think it’s a little bit of both. It gives me a sense of relief, if I’m being honest. If I make a wrong decision or mistake, I have faith that it will all eventually play out in the end. Maybe the course my life takes will be different than it would have been, but I can’t spend my entire existence thinking about what could have been. It’s the now that matters. Life gives me each moment and I try to live them; but it’s hard. It’s so hard. It’s so hard to not spend the very moment I’m trying to live worrying about how to live it. It is so easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Without even knowing it, another day is gone and I can bet, nine times out of ten, I didn’t spend one moment of it living. Surviving is so much different than living. I just have to trust that Fate will handle it and keep going because the future may feel far away, but it’s starting right now.

This I believe.

~S. Rae