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It would depend upon what we consider our fate to be.
Bumbles · 51-55, M
@pipedreams Bro, that’s not how fate works.
@Bumbles How does it work?
Bumbles · 51-55, M
@pipedreams Destiny! Nothing can ever be what it was not destined to be. There is only one continuous now.
@Bumbles Are you familiar with the opening lines of "Burnt Norton", the first part of "Four Quartets" by T.S.Eliot?
[i]Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind.[/i]
[i]Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind.[/i]