Coming back to writing on my blog right now feels like a 'long time no see' moment. It's been over a year since my last post and I can give a million reasons for it, lack of inspiration or a busy schedule etc... but I'd rather just get on with what I've come to write.
People are of the belief that the life you lead is the result of all the decisions you have taken but what if that wasn't true. Have you ever thought whether a persons path in life is already set in stone or is it that every decision they make will change the way their life is headed?
This thought was a result of a conversation I had with my parents while at dinner and a movie called the Adjustment Bureau. My dad was telling me about how practically everything that was predicted for one of our relatives by a 'Jyotish' came true and that there might be some value to the kundalis written at birth. The movie showed that every person has a particular life plan and that the best way for their life is if it moves according to the plan. But then doesn't this simply mean that each person has no free will; if everything is already decided and if these predictions are setting out how a person should live their life then how does the individual decisions of a person impact their life. Is it that all our decisions will take us to the same end as predicted leaving us with just the illusion of free will when in reality it's all pre decided?
I can't get myself to agree that there is only one set path that has been predicted at birth, I believe that each of our decisions has the power to change the future and give rise to new possibilities. Maybe there is a plan laid out for people but it's the choices they make that matter. Maybe there are multiple roadways laid out for every person and their choices have the ability to alter their destiny even if minutely. Only then would it be true to say that it's you yourself who is driving your life. What would be the point of possessing the ability to weigh pros and cons if it is possible to know in advance which way a life is headed and know that that is the only way there is?
Why would a person be responsible for the consequences of their decisions if their future is already decided by whatever forces one would like to believe in? If things are already decided for a person then it would lead to the conclusion that the people you surround yourself with are also already decided after all the choice to befriend a person is just that, a choice. The fact that someone has the ability to predict your future and be right about it has to mean that the future is set and that your choices won't make any difference to what will happen. How then is a persons life a culmination of their choices, how then can it be said that the people you surround yourself with will make you who you are?
Truly believing that what has been written at birth is how your life is going to be is nothing more than taking away your own ability to make your own destiny and giving yourself a way to blame something over which you had no control when things go wrong.
People are of the belief that the life you lead is the result of all the decisions you have taken but what if that wasn't true. Have you ever thought whether a persons path in life is already set in stone or is it that every decision they make will change the way their life is headed?
This thought was a result of a conversation I had with my parents while at dinner and a movie called the Adjustment Bureau. My dad was telling me about how practically everything that was predicted for one of our relatives by a 'Jyotish' came true and that there might be some value to the kundalis written at birth. The movie showed that every person has a particular life plan and that the best way for their life is if it moves according to the plan. But then doesn't this simply mean that each person has no free will; if everything is already decided and if these predictions are setting out how a person should live their life then how does the individual decisions of a person impact their life. Is it that all our decisions will take us to the same end as predicted leaving us with just the illusion of free will when in reality it's all pre decided?
I can't get myself to agree that there is only one set path that has been predicted at birth, I believe that each of our decisions has the power to change the future and give rise to new possibilities. Maybe there is a plan laid out for people but it's the choices they make that matter. Maybe there are multiple roadways laid out for every person and their choices have the ability to alter their destiny even if minutely. Only then would it be true to say that it's you yourself who is driving your life. What would be the point of possessing the ability to weigh pros and cons if it is possible to know in advance which way a life is headed and know that that is the only way there is?
Why would a person be responsible for the consequences of their decisions if their future is already decided by whatever forces one would like to believe in? If things are already decided for a person then it would lead to the conclusion that the people you surround yourself with are also already decided after all the choice to befriend a person is just that, a choice. The fact that someone has the ability to predict your future and be right about it has to mean that the future is set and that your choices won't make any difference to what will happen. How then is a persons life a culmination of their choices, how then can it be said that the people you surround yourself with will make you who you are?
Truly believing that what has been written at birth is how your life is going to be is nothing more than taking away your own ability to make your own destiny and giving yourself a way to blame something over which you had no control when things go wrong.
