Of late, I’ve been observing myself developing an increasingly fatalistic view on things. Fundamentally, I feel like there’s just been a gradual change in my belief system. If I were to think of it in analogies, I think my earlier belief was that the universe was on it’s own journey and you had to really push and force it to set sail in the direction you want. Anything you wanted involved a massive push if it’s against the direction of the winds of the universe.
My experiences over the past year have had me reconsider this. Now, I’m convinced that pushing only works very rarely. For the most part, the universe just goes it’s own way and your energies are better spent figuring out the direction of the wind and setting sail accordingly.
So, most of the macro energies in your life have their own plan. If you are due to have an ‘upset’, you will. If you are due to have a stretch of good luck, you also will.
While, on first look, this evolution feels disempowering, it actually works the other way. I actually feel very empowered and powerful because all I’m focusing on is working out what I want to do, looking out for the direction of the winds and then changing plans as necessary. Getting stuck up on the old plan only leads to disappointment. Change is guaranteed.
I’m not sure if this is indeed a fatalistic view because I still believe in the power of being best prepared for any change ourselves and the power of responding to a macro change well. That said, it is still pretty philosophical.
The final part of this belief system is that the macro winds do know what they are doing. If you are forced to change direction, it’s because it eventually all works out. We often get so involved in the act of sailing and get so attached to the destination that we forget about why we are doing it in the first place..
Massive change in thinking. I feel old. Haha.
Wish you a great week.
(PS: It does all work out :-))
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