Your Fate vs Free Will?

Since the first human beings became self-aware they probably questioned fate vs free will.

Who knows?  It could be argued either way with relative success.  One thing I am certain of however is which ever one you believe will be real for you.

How can they both be possible?  Maybe that is the point.  It is quite possible that we have a choice in the way we live our life.

1. Some people live as if they are in complete control of their lives and that will be their reality.  Their mind, or more accurately their idea of life and what is real will…

• delete
• ignore
• deny and distort

anything which doesn’t fit into their internal idea of what is real.

2. Other people live as if they are being guided by a higher power through their life.  The things they are passionate about are considered to be preordained (meaning decided outside your conscious, rational mind as if they are given to you).

It is fascinating the wide variety of talents, skills and passion people have.  One can be passionate about designing and sewing clothes while another can be passionate about remote controlled trucks.  Why?  Obviously these two people have different aptitudes and values, but they didn’t choose these aptitudes and values consciously so from where do they arise?

The people that come into their lives are considered to be not just random but organized or attracted.  A meeting that benefits one or both of them, for just 5 minutes or maybe a whole lifetime.

Einstein said something similar to this fate vs free will conundrum when he said…

In my experience living the second way is more fulfilling, empowering and worthwhile.

The conscious mind and the ego are not designed to know what is best for you.  The ideas you have that come from your head are based on fear and lack.  You can pursue the perfect body and the perfect home or the status of a certain job but is that what your heart wants or your head?

If you follow your head and once you achieve what you thought you wanted the ego will then set your sights on the next thing.  This is not a bad thing so long as you don’t hold it that getting this thing will be fulfilling and provide happiness.

Maybe the real reason you are pursuing that high status job is to make your father proud of you or you think people will talk about you with respect and admiration.  So, you have free will to pursue the job but…

• it won’t change the way you think of your father and
  your relationship
• once the job goes so will the attention and your
  crutch to feeling semi-OK.