Destiny

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[00:00:18] Last week, I don't even know if someone asked me do you believe in Destiny or not?

[00:00:22] And it's always an interesting question to answer, right? I've thought about this question

[00:00:26] a lot. And here's my response. My heart wishes that there was no such thing as Destiny,

[00:00:36] but my mind is convinced that Destiny exists. Let me explain. So I've read a lot of philosophy,

[00:00:43] I've read a lot of spiritual texts, I've read a lot of religious texts, ancient wisdom,

[00:00:50] and the more I read them, the more I think about them, the more I try and interpret what they

[00:00:56] are supposed to say or hinge towards. It points me to the irrefutable hints that Destiny exists.

[00:01:05] Everything is pre-planned, everything is written beforehand. Even the fact that you don't believe

[00:01:11] in Destiny, even that's written, right? So if you're like, hey, but I don't believe in Destiny,

[00:01:16] that's also Destiny. It's kind of twisted, it's really cool once you start thinking about it deeply.

[00:01:21] And yeah, that's what it is. But then that's what my mind tells me,

[00:01:28] like it's convinced that Destiny exists. But that troubles me because I'd like to believe

[00:01:34] that there is free will. I'd like to believe that I get to choose and also bear the consequences of

[00:01:41] my decisions. I'd like to believe that I can generate options for myself. And more importantly,

[00:01:49] if Destiny does exist, what if that Destiny isn't fair? What if one can get away with crime or

[00:01:58] injustice because, you know, what hashtag Destiny, I can murder someone. And if it's not written in my

[00:02:04] fate that I will bear the consequences of that, I can actually murder someone and get away with that.

[00:02:09] And I don't know how to reconcile that because my heart wishes, as I said, that there is no such

[00:02:15] thing as Destiny, that we're all men and women of free will, that we get to choose, that we get

[00:02:21] to respond so on. And it's also counter to all the beliefs that I often speak about. Like,

[00:02:28] I'm a form believer that we all should and have to bear the consequences of our decisions.

[00:02:36] But if those decisions are already Destiny, then maybe the choices we made are also Destiny.

[00:02:44] And maybe because of that, the consequences that we bear is also Destiny.

[00:02:49] And in that event, then it doesn't matter. So I'm not sure where I am. I'm actually not even

[00:02:56] sure why I'm recording this and sharing with you. But that's the point of this podcast where

[00:03:00] we just go and share about everything that's on my mind. And if you were to ask me,

[00:03:06] if you would literally put a gun to my head, I'd say, no, you have to choose between the two.

[00:03:11] I would say that there is no such thing as Destiny. But I think a lot of people will disagree

[00:03:18] with me on that. What do you think? Thank you for listening to this episode of Voice with Varaku.

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