Did you ever wish that you could turn back time? I do, almost all of the time. I wish I could go back to the past, when I did something wrong, stupid, or humiliating and change it for the better or better yet, just change all of it, so it never would have happened at all. I also wish I could stop time to just savor the happy moments, all the good memories of my childhood. I think we all did.

But if you think about it, maybe it was meant to be, like…err…“fate”. (I still don’t actually know if I believe in this four letter word or not, but what the heck, I’ll give it a shot) Maybe our lives have been planned for us before we even got here. Good or bad, maybe it was/is really for us. As a catholic, I think I should believe in “fate”. But if I were to believe in “fate”, why does HE (God) choose people to suffer?

Maybe HE did plan our lives, but we just intercepted it (without even knowing). Maybe HE did plan a good life for us but somewhere along the path we accidentally made the wrong turn, and instead of going back, we didn’t, we just kept on going. Until we got lost/felt lost, and realized that were not on the right track. Can we still go back? After all the lefts and rights that we did? Is there a map back to THE road? … I hope so.

Or maybe HE did want this to happen. Maybe HE wanted to challenge us. To test ourselves to our outermost limits, to see how we can cope up with life and how we would handle it. Maybe HE wanted us to learn from our mistakes/experiences. An old cliché probably made before we even got here, however why do we sometimes forget about that simple cliché when we make our choices. We often make wrong choices repeatedly, that we don’t even realize that were doing something wrong. Until someone hits us in the head, and makes us realize that we’re not going anywhere, that were screwed up. But what if nobody “hits” us in the head? Will it be too late if we finally realize it just by ourselves? And if we did realize it and if we remember that cliché, does that mean that were going to have a happy life? Or did we just cross one out of the million possible problems that we could encounter in life?

Upon reading this…again. I realized that both my “opinions” are somewhat the same, one way or another. Maybe it doesn’t matter if he planned this or not. Maybe the important thing is to be responsible in our actions and to just take the consequence(s) that come with it, either good or bad, positively. Like my mom would say, “think positive, anak. Walang binibigay na problema si Lord na hindi mo kayang solusyonan.” (“Think positive, my child, God doesn’t give you a problem that you’re not capable of fixing.”)

So maybe it is “fate”…

FATE n.-an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future