Destiny v. Fate

Wednesday Word
6/29/2016

Destiny

Merriam-Webster: the events that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future; the hidden power believed what will happen in the future.

Quintessential Voyage: objectives assigned to your soul that require your physical being to shuttle you to and through in order to achieve it. The assignment of these objectives are determined by a greater power, beyond our comprehension. Those objectives are passing islands during your pre-plotted voyage of your life, it's up to you to explore and conquer these islands rather than letting them go by, you may pass them again or you may not.

Fate

Merriam-Webster: the development of events beyond a person's control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power; to be destined to happen, turn out, or act in a particular way.

Quintessential Voyage: events and landmarks that happen based on happenstance, the predetermined crash course of these events is unpredictable. How you react to each collision is the deciding factor in the realization of destined achievements or follies. Without control of these, you can simply prepare and brace for impact in order to create the best possible outcome for yourself.

Destined Destinations

Tuesday Take
6/28/2016

I was looking for a quote to help embody how I felt about destiny and fate... I was unsuccessful.

I'm working on crafting something about this... perhaps for Wednesday Word I can craft my own definition of these misconceived words. For right now I'll tell you that there's a certain amount of life that happens by chance, this is not calculable in a formula because of so many various variables.

If you believe you have a destiny that's great, but fate alone will not get you there. If you're meant to cross paths with a mountain, a challenge, or an experience, it's up to you to conquer it and overcome it, if you so deem fit.

Fate is the currents, the winds, all those forces that collaborate to get you in the situations for your destiny to become realized.

Destiny is the objectives where you are meant to be and conquer, but these things are not all given through coincidence or happen through force. There's a certain amount of finesse and strategy that going into achieving one's destiny, oh and don't forget the wisdom to know what is true.

Adventures for One

Monday Mountain
6/27/2016

While surfing the endless waves of the internet, I came across this image explaining the common depiction of the heart that we use and why it doesn't exactly match the anatomical representation of this blood-pumping organ. The image is actually meant to be two hearts coming together in order to symbolize love. See below...

Now here's the part where I tell you to not fall in love... Not just yet at least. I know last week I wrote about the heart and some of the functions of how it works, but the heart is built for the individual's use throughout their whole life.

Take this singular heart of yours and show it the world. Explore the places you've only imagined about or things you've only seen in pictures. Enrich your knowledge and wisdom through the experiences of the world. Develop your own understanding. Learn as much as you can about yourself. Travel, live, experience, grow, etc. So many things you should be doing with yourself, yet you're saving you for another while that version of you that you're saving goes stale. Those adventures you have with yourself create opportunities for you and your soul and your heart to be refreshed and enhanced and just better in so many ways.

Adventures for one allow for great stories. Going out and finding yourself in the world, whether you find it in pieces or as a whole, makes you much better at being the other half in a relationship. Be the adventurous one, explore and enrich and explain.

Explanations of the Heart

Thursday Thought
6/23/2016

• Love & Heartbreak

• Love works in an interesting way... In my head you find someone you like someone you enjoy spending time with and who you get along with, a person who causes minimal pain. This individual earns trust and affection, in time (dependant on the owner) the owner of a heart will decide to give them a piece of their own heart. This act of LOVE is great, if it is reciprocated, we often want to see a trade of heart pieces and beautiful endings. 
• Heartbreak happens when this person leaves you while keeping your piece, this is often a problem the owner puts on themselves. In other words, the person may offer the individual their heart back to them and the original owner either will not accept it or refuses to end the deal. Imagine the situation of a break-up like a reposession, a person takes their heartpiece back and the new "owner" fights to keep it, in the end the person initiating a break-up gets to keep the heart and theirs. There are those mutual break-ups but the blood on your hands from a return exchange never seems to wash off. 

• Love: Lessons of Better Spending
• Look back at your first love, you remember it? How awesome did it make you feel? How invested were you in that person? How much time did you spend with them? See where i'm going with this is when you're young (or new to love), you're willing to spend more and give them more than probably what they deserve. 

• Refer back to the point above, you gave this person a piece of your heart, in a percentage how much do you think you gave them? How much did you give that next person you fell in love with? Who got more? Chances are you probably have given that first person the most, the second even less, and each person after that you were more and more reluctant to invest and gift pieces of your heart. If you're married and you truly believe this is your life partner, the person you're going to be happy with forever, then I bet you that when you and them were dating you gave them more and more of your heart until eventually it was the most anyone's ever received and the best way you've invested it.

• Fiery Passion, the Heart - Source
• The heart is like an eternal flame. Pause for dramatic effect, cue your eye roll. I know it's cliche but think about this... You are working on something and plugging away, if you're truly passionate about it you are able to continue at it for days and weeks without wavering. I imagine the heart is a fire that burns to signal things like passion, love, happiness, etc. The flames change color. Those who are close to you can see it and interpret it and understand it. In order for somebody to get close to the flame, there are layers (like an onion, not a cake). Somebody has to get past each one into the inner rings. 

• Emotional Investment, a Debt Crisis
• There's an issue nowadays with investing and spending. Not just for cash money, but also for emotional spending. We are often spending more than we have and thus creating a loss in terms of return of investment. Between friends, family, and lovers/partners/significant others... Allocating the funds of emotional energy can be difficult and tough to spend adequately. You need to find people who will spend their energy with you, and thus creating a return of investment for you and a beneficial relationship for you both.
• Take a minute, imagine you're at the beach as a kid, building a sand castle with your toys. Now this stranger kid comes in to help you build this sand castle, they may or may not understand the sand castle you want to build but they're helping you by deterring the water, collecting piles of good sand, or even beautifying the structure. This other person is that lover/significant other that assists you in achieving your goals, they enable you and help you to achieve your goals even though my may not fully understand, they want the best for you. If you're a good partner, you will do the same for them when they start to build their sand castle.