Dec 09 2008
On Intention versus Destiny
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
– Douglas Adams
How many times do we start out in one direction and end up somewhere totally different. Perhaps it is just on a walk, in which we discover, by accident (or destiny) someplace really nice. Or a time when we get lost while driving and find a nice place we then visit again and again.
But Adams has something different in mind, I suspect. We plan our lives, oh, so carefully but with the passage of time, our plans change. Slightly or in a major way. We see things differently and make different choices. We are affected by finances, weather, the plans of others in our life. A side step from the path becomes a major detour.
Robert Frost knew it well. “Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back” (The Road Not Taken, http://www.bartleby.com/119/1.html)
there is more than one way to say it,just like there is more than one way to get there - but in the end, we are where we are supposed to be.
