Take Warning

Do you believe in signs, fate, karma, kismet, des­tiny, or luck? I do, to a cer­tain degree. I think that there is some force that acts as a gen­eral guide in our lives, but whether we ful­fill some pre­des­tined goal still depends on our own choices and actions. Assum­ing there is a pre­des­tined goal for each of us. If there is… I could use some help fig­ur­ing mine out. As could, I’m sure, 99% of the pop­u­la­tion. But then again, maybe many of us do ful­fill our des­tinies, with­out even real­iz­ing it. After all, not every­one can grow up to pro­tect all of Gotham City, but if some street thug hadn’t killed his par­ents, that never would have come to be. (OK, maybe a real life exam­ple would have been bet­ter. And I’m def­i­nitely not advo­cat­ing street-​thug-​ism. I’ve just had comics on the brain lately.)

Why do I bring this up? Just some odd stuff’s been hap­pen­ing in my life. Prob­a­bly unre­lated. But… they could be signs. The other day, when I came back to Davis after hav­ing din­ner with my fam­ily, as I stepped into my bed­room, I turned on the light. Or tried to. It burned out as soon as I flicked it on. Then, just as I sat down in my chair in front of my com­puter, a frame that was hang­ing over my roommate’s com­puter fell down onto his chair.

Signs, or just coin­ci­den­tal fluc­tu­a­tions in the time/​space con­tin­uüm? Who knows?

Oh yeah… the REAL rea­son I bring this up… my sis­ter told me last night that yes­ter­day my fam­ily went to the tem­ple, and they got soem for­tunes told. The priest told my par­ents that mov­ing to Ari­zona would be a very bad idea, so now they are re-​thinking “the plan.” Dong Ha, Gio Linh, and I are secretly very happy about this. I try not to put too much weight into horo­scopes, because I think they can skew your world-​view, and become self-​fulfilling prophe­cies, so why risk a bad one? I’ve noticed for some folks it boils down into a cop out, really. It’s eas­ier to lis­ten to some higher force and blame it when and if things don’t go your way. But hey, if this one will con­vince my par­ents not to move thou­sands of miles away from me… I don’t mind.

So yeah… here’s hop­ing! :cross fingers:

Tags: Computer, Dong Ha, Family, Gio Linh