WHAT IS MY DESTINY?

This is well thought out, and well written. Yet, I must say that it is human nature to strive for something more. Are Destiny and Fate not one and the same? Some believe they are very closely related. Very thought provoking! Excellent!!

My friend, the future is an abstract of now. We percieve what will happen and in some circles embrace it, in others we object to it. The only time frame that is real is now. The past has become a ghost of blurred thoughts and fanticies and the future is not even a tick away but, it is away from reality. Only chances, like lottery tickets. Like the article of the person going down the river trying to embrace the thought of the whole of the river systems and seeing only his perspective, the future never gets here. It is a constant stream of nows. Until we realize this one perspective, we will dream of things that will only come to light in Disney land or some other amusement park. If you remember, there were towns of tomorrow that, if enacted on would have solved this oil dependency long ago, but the price tag was not met and it melted away into the dreams of what might have been instead of what is.
I will continue to put my eggs into the same basket as before, the now basket. I tried to adjust the future by starting a citizen's committee set to make an old set of rail road tracks into a nature walk. It turned into a street. For me now the future basket is the children and they will make their own destiny. Mine is set in concrete and waiting to be lowered into the ground with all the other good intented but not wanted ideas of the future. It would seem the same basket as yours said differently. This could have been or somethng similar was written about by me some time ago. Strange how different minds work on the same wave-length at times. Maybe we are brothers with different mothers.?

Boris, there is no future! The only portion of time that can be said to be pointing to truth is the present. Eternity is this instant constantly - it is always, and always has no direction. Thus destiny as a false concept. What you make of your life is determined by what you believe and value - now and manifesting now. You can only live in the now and die (if you believe you are a body) in the now - only in this instant. It is a self-evident truth.

Boris, this reminds me so much of Buddhism, the thought, the forcing one to think clearly about one's path and I do believe that too many of us put off living worrying about our destiny we sometimes disregard that every single thought, every choice, freewill IS our destiny, rather shall form it, the creation of it. Every single moment of our lives shapes what we shall become. Too many of us are blind to the fact that right this very minute, whatever it is we are doing is a part of our true destiny. Some of us are just more aware of it, rather than feeling that we are "eeking" out an existence, some of us feel that we are "preparing" for something much greater.

Quotes such as these make my brain ache in a good way.

*smile*