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[grim23]

A former student of mine wrote: "Destiny is what/who we are meant to be. Fate is what happens to us when we turn our back on fulfilling our Destiny."

I'm curious for other perspectives. I'm opening up my lj for this. Respond if you will.

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[tigresssky.livejournal.com]

I have to disagree with the comments that your students quote is a "cop-out" to not dealing with things. I think its a bit confusing. Maybe reworded it would make more sense:

"Destiny is what we strive for. Fate is what happens when we turn our back on our destiny."

I have to say that rewording it this way makes it become us being responsible for the outcome of our life or not. It says we can strive to have the outcome desired or we can sit on our duff and hope fate will make things happen.

However, it still doesnt address the times when Fate steps in and smacks you down hard and says "hell no you are not going there."

Fate isnt only what happens when we arent looking. It is also what was meant to happen, even if we rail against it.

~TigressSky~