"Destiny ?"

The word "Destiny" is a big word, one which implies big things like becoming famous or something, but the truth is that a persons destiny can be simple everyday things like becoming a teacher or a fireman, a mother, or in my case, a convict. Destiny is not something defined as good or evil. It is nothing more than a journey that one must take in order to experience what they came to this life to experience. Sometimes that experience is happiness and sometimes that experience is sorrow, in fact our free-will in life is not the right to choose or to deny our destiny ... our freedom-of-choice in the matter is in how we react to our destiny experience, you can be happy with it or miserable with it, that's the only free-will choice you have in the matter ...that's some wise shit, right?...LOL, well, prison taught me that.

Yep, life and its inevitable destiny is certainly a quandary. Nevertheless the one thing I have learned for certain from this particular life is that there are no coincidences in it; I suppose that this is an intuitive knowing, the result of many past life experiences. Now that I have a better understanding of this most basic higher-thought principle, I have come to understand that "something" above me, or "something" greater than me, has directed my every experience, and that that  "something" had correctly birthed me into the family I was ultimately born into, as surely as that same "something" engineered me parting ways with them at fifteen. In this I have come to know that it was not through the mistakes of my parents that I became a mendicant, or a convict, those things happened through a greater plan, a purposeful design. Yes, if I were to look at my childhood from a purely human perspective it would be easy to become a complainer, to see only the tragedy which pushed me into a cruel set of circumstances which ripped me from the arms of a loving mother and younger brother. However, sometimes, life presents you with the greatest gifts imaginable disguised as your worst nightmare, and in this knowledge, I now understand that my family gave me exactly what they were intended to give me; they gave me exactly what I need so that I could advance to the next level of human potential.

For instance, my mother gave me a basic knowledge of God through her religion. My brother gave me love and companionship in the purest sense of the word, and my selfish, alcoholic father taught me to crave a stronger relationship with me future children than he had with us. He also taught me to recognize and despise the weakness of undisciplined people. Yes, my friend, they all unwittingly did their part to give me exactly what I needed to be the man I am today. Yes, its all true, and no one is to blame for any of my actions or misfortunes ... remember it's not what happens to you that makes you a better person, it's how you react to your circumstances that defines you a positive or negative entity.

Perdurabo.

#Mayor Mark says: I am the Bizarro version of, Jon Valjon. Think about it.

 

Bastrop, TX 10/13/26