About Fate and the Love of Fate
About Fate and the Love of Fate
The moral case for the love of fate.
People love the idea of fate.
They love the idea that things happen for a reason. Whether it's through luck or coincidence or whatever they think is behind it. They want to believe that there are forces beyond their control who are directing your actions to a specific situation for the right person at the right time and that's how they take advantage of them to get what they want. Nowhere is this idea of people's love for fate more clear than in the area of love itself. For them, there's one person out there who is meant for you and at some point, hopefully when you're ready, the world will push you in the right direction to meet them so you can fall madly in love and ultimately end up together forever. Your whole life, including all the good and bad things which have happened to you, has been leading up to this moment. To the person who will make it all worth it.
Because of course this person will understand you in a way that no other person would. After all, it's not just you who has been pushed and pulled in the ways you have been. It's everything and everyone, including the person you're supposed to be with. They were just as fated to be with you as you were to them. It wouldn't make sense if they didn't understand you and give you that missing piece of what you need to be completely happy. People like the idea of the world working that way. It gives them comfort and lets them believe in a better world. Something which might naturally lead you to be the kind of person who would attract a similarly happy person.
Naturally, the problem for people who don't want to believe in such things is that it's very hard to disprove these ideas. Strange coincidences do happen and happy accidents will bring people together under the weirdest circumstances. It can get to the point where even those who aren't willing to believe in them will end up seeing them everywhere and find happiness in them. Which in a lot of cases can in fact lead to a better world for all who live in them. Why would anyone not want to live in such a world?
About Fate is fundamentally about a world where it's hard to argue with fate. Margot Hayes and Griffin Reed, as played beautifully by Emma Roberts and Thomas Mann, believe that they've found the person that they're fated to be with. It would seem like Clementine and Kip, played fantastically by Madelaine Petsch and Lewis Tan, seem like the perfect people for Margot and Griffin to be with. Yet through a strange series of coincidences, some might call it fate, that ends up becoming much less clear to everyone involved. No one more than Margot and Griffin who meet and for some reason keep meeting and finding ways to spend time together. Almost like some unseen force is pushing them into thinking that they're meant to be together. Which isn't surprising.
It's hard to argue with fate.
Do yourself a favour and explore the love of fate by checking out About Fate as soon as you can.
About Fate is available on Amazon.
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For some reason the word “fate” for me will always be tied to that one scene in The Matrix where Neo states he doesn’t like the idea because it implies your life isn’t yours to control.
I’m on the fence about it myself, simply because life itself will teach you there are definitely things beyond one’s control. And the idea of just calling it fate feels too random and chaotic (at least for me).
But, I think people cling to the idea of fate because in a way it gives them hope for the future. If you believe that things are destined for you, why worry so much about the now? It’s bound to get better, right?
The problem comes of course when people become too complacent and lazy with it. Even I as a person of faith are expected by God to do at least some leg work.
And relationships in general, especially long term, take a good amount of work. There is no “love at first sight” nonsense. Real love takes time and effort, something that can be done with anyone (with the right motivation), not just “the one.” (If you ask me that’s a load of drivel as well).