Tag: destiny
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The Paths We Walk~
A child walks alone under the arches, stick in hand, tracing invisible lines on an old stone path. The arches repeat endlessly, like the choices life lays before us—each one a gateway to another possibility. There is something quiet in the moment, but it speaks loudly of decisions, of chances taken or missed, and of…
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Choices, Destiny, and the Signs We Follow~
Today, during a trip to Mons to visit the newly built Calatrava train station in Belgium, I found myself drawn not just to the architecture but to a moment—a fleeting alignment of lines, light, and thought. As we wandered through the station taking photos, I came across this scene: arrows painted on the floor, directing…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 80/365
If we were robots, designed to be born, to live a span of life and then die, then life would have been a straight line of non-events. But life is not like that and being human is so much more complex that straight lines are overtaken by curves. I often thought About how when you…
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Daily Coffee Talk~75/364
There must have been a time when humans were born on this planet with a clarity of purpose and a constant awareness of purpose for this journey we find ourselves on. It feels that something has occurred to cause a derailment of the human story, sometime, somehow, we took a wrong turn and we find…
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The Art of Containment~
Sometimes the world feels so vast, it’s people too many and the weight of it to heavy to bear. At those moments, and if you were a person that enjoys their own company with the endless mazes ripe with possibilities of self discovery, then the obvious result would be a self engineered containment. It can…
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On Possession~
Possessions: What do we really, truly possess? We think of possessions as things we plan and hope on keeping permanently, and the more we have the more we want to collect. But in the end, does it really matter? Maybe we can call them temporary belongings, because that is all they are. When we leave…
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The power of choice~
The next step we take, the next word we say, the next thought we harbor, the next bite we eat, these are the small choices we make but how small are they really? It is all connected, every road we take leads to the highway of our destiny, or not. In this maze we call…
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Breaking out of our self-made prisons~
It has been said that the chains that bind us are mostly self-manufactured by our own self-esteem and pride. Personal development is an uncomfortable journey upward and into the unknown, if only we dare. Day 54 of 365~ Image taken in the entrance to the old tea house in Kashgar, Xinjiang
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The greatest fear~
One of the greatest fears might be to one day realize one is insignificant. To have lived a life that touched no one deeply, to not have loved passionately, to not have given for the sake of giving and not to have believed in something much greater than oneself. And scarier even than all of…
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The first day of the rest of my life~
Every morning I wake up, I get the same feeling: “today it can all be rewritten”. I was never one to believe in a determined destiny or a life already preplanned, or at least I was always questioning the process and processing the question. Today, the first day of 2018 of all days, I decided…