Fate And Karma – Really?

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I’m not one for superstition, religion, or belief in the unexplainable.  I have a very scientific and logical mind, and find it almost impossible to believe that such things can exist in this world.  But I’ve been thinking back to some of the things that have happened to me, both big and small, and feel like they were almost meant to happen.  Looking back, a lot of the things that have happened to me in the past couple of years were almost necessities – they needed to happen to help me learn and grow.  Some of them were good.  Some of them sucked.  But they all helped address things in me that needed work, resolved some lingering issues, or otherwise closed the gap on a lot of things in my life, and I find it really hard to believe that all of these things were just coincidences.

Many of them were improbable, not likely to happen, yet they did.  I never expected to even have to deal with some of those things, yet I did.  It’s all really strange, and it’s hard for me to consolidate the fact that they did happen with my belief that there’s a logical explanation for everything out there.

Somehow, I guess a part of me does believe that everything happens for a reason.  And a big part of me also believes that you reap what you sow – or rather, karma works.  I know that I, along with probably almost everyone else, take comfort in the thought (belief?) that everything is a big circle, and that, in time, things will balance themselves out.

None of us will ever really know how everything in the universe works, so there’s really no point in wondering whether there really is a force like fate at work in our lives.  I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing and live my life, and I’ll let that small part of me keep hoping that there really is a force out there that’s controlling the way things should be.

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