The so-called destiny...

The hibernation is abruptly cut short and I am thrust forward to blog something after a long time just because I hate to see my pen getting rusty. Its been pretty long...lets say a month...since my bliss-filled days of pure vettiness faded into oblivion. But these lessons I did learn in those 101 summer days(except for the ones in my entrance classes which I forgot even before the exams)are tucked safely in my memory. These days saw me evolving steadily to accept a new life after leaving my school, my haven for 14 years(thats almost like saying my entire lifetime...I'm just 18!)..This certainly wasnt the most easy part of growing up, aint the best either but just one more milestone crossed.
It was pretty terrifying, this transformation, coz I was warned every single day that I'd be encountering a totally different atmosphere....or to quote most "The real world"....Now being a John Mayer fan, I'd rather say "There's no such thing". Life is pretty much the same, people are pretty much the same, everything goes on as it used to but it is just that I've changed a bit.
Mom always used to say that life is never too fair and that even if you give your best, you might not get back something what equals your effort. Most of my friends did say the same after the results were released, more still after they got into colleges. There was this intolerable barrier of partiality in every single thing I encountered these days, starting from my vacation in Srilanka to the admission process. If merit and hardwork were to ensure success the world would be totally different and I would not have to suppress a cynical outburst of laughter over one of my friends,a truely happy-go-lucky gal, below-average rank holder who managed to scrape through the exams getting into a really prestigious college ,into a much sought after group through recommendation from some big-shot(Anna University, BE Comp Sc) when my school toppers got into some anonymous colleges. Neither of them are to be blamed. Both got something that they didn’t deserve but something they are destined for. And that is exactly where we encounter this phenomenon of a pre-written destiny.
I, on the other hand, never gave much and never expected much either. So there was no room for disappointment. Just maybe a little wave of shock over the stark difference (or indifference) that prevails in this world. Oft I had wondered if every single life was already designed, crafted and set and as Shakespeare enunciates that man is just an actor who merely plays the role offered, a role that was again written well before it was actually played. The feeling that there is something called fate, which is well above the reach of man, well beyond his abilities to alter ,gives me the creeps.
Going a little deeper, I wonder what Karma is all about. So I consulted my residential philosophers(my dad and grandpa) concerning the same and got further intrigued. This age-old story of births, rebirths, the balance of good and bad deeds, chithragupta’s good ol’ black book may not be rediscussed. Most of us even shrug them off as mythical, hypothetical and nonsensical. But come to think of it scientifically, you know what I’m gonna say, but I’d say it again, Newton’s third law. Going a little off-track, I’d like to state that it is one of my favorites as it is simple, concise, the easiest to understand and ofcourse reproduce in the paper. “Every action has an equal and opposite reaction”. This may be the simplest form of putting the theory of Karma. Do good and goodness shall surround you. Do evil and evil would be what you get in return. There is no chance of cancellation of good and evil. If I ever do kill a person to make another live, then I’d be tried for both the actions and the rewards and reprimanding would both be effected to the fullest. No one can escape this cycle.
Observing more and more happenings, I was convinced of the existence of the pre-written destiny. Then, I wondered, why we have to work if our efforts go in vain, why we have to struggle if someone else was to walk away with the benefits or basically why we should go out of our way to achieve if we could get what was destined sitting where we are.
The answer again is pretty simple, and it is just the question without the question mark(wish questions in my exams would be that way{sigh}) We are destined to do certain things that we would end up doing no matter how hard we try not to. A simple example would be that this was definitely not the topic I intended to write on but you know I did end up writing it. There comes destiny again…..
The joy of living would be lost if one were to know the future exactly. But trust me, no one except the Great Maker himself is capable of giving such a detailed account. People say it is possible through astrology, but as far as I know(being deeply interested in astrology), it just gives an outline leaving us to fill the picture. Life would always remain unpredictable to us, bearing loads and loads of mysteries, surprises and twists that would always come as a blot in the clear sky. So then I decided that even though something called destiny exists, it is really good to sometimes just forget that concept and take to life as a new born does. And for all those of you who are really irritated and confused after reading this post, and are right now wondering why you did waste your time reading this, console yourself with the thought that this was a part of you destiny……