A couple of nights ago I had the opportunity to find and watch a documentary about Tupac Amaru Shakur. Being a mostly-rock music type of guy (me), I really had no good idea of who he was but I was intrigued enough, and I decided to watch it online on NetFlix. The documentary was focused mainly on the fact that Tupac was indeed a good man and also the fact that he had to face a lot of  “reality” in a little short of time during his short life: no wonder he got violent at some point. But what really caught my attention was that, even though him and I are VERY different, I also found each other on the same side of the “grass” on many other aspects including justice, helping other to succeed, and mainly worry about others as much or even more than you could worry about yourself. Read more…

Have you ever gone through a moment in your life when you think you can’t do or don’t want to do more than you are actually doing? We have all experienced such “stages” at certain point in our lives–consciously (“I’m not good for school”) and/or subconsciously (“My job gives me everything I want. I don’t need to learn anything new”). Whichever situation you have found yourself into, it is always limiting ourselves from doing more with your life–and in mine too some time ago.

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“Things” are not easy in life sometimes. We make decisions, think about stuff, and then proceed on working on it. Sometimes we don’t even get close to that stage, but instead just jump into life and wait until “it” happens. Whichever the way we decide to approach our experiences, they could be either beneficial and destructive; thinking about what to do can be good and bad as not thinking at all can be too. Nothing is written in stone, some say. And lots of planning, or lack of it, could make you rich or poor in an instant or in a long period of time you cannot revert. But, is there a way to control our destiny? Is there a way to manipulate our fates in any way we want?

Definitely.

Years have passed, and I finally can say that I “get it;” that I understand that “yes, I can decide if my destiny will be this or that.” For instance, we humans are all born with it; this sort of intuition about our surroundings. Intuition as when itseems to control our thinking and actions at times. Have you ever experienced this? For example, did you choose to go to college or were you influenced by someone? Or, was that restaurant or warehouse you worked at where you decided to spend 5 years of your life? Or, does it make you jealous to see your friends or others enjoy what you cannot? Have you? Have you desired to end a path in your life that did not feel proper? We all have felt this intuition, yet we decide not to listen.

Society plays a huge role in our destiny. We let our families, friends, TV, and other ways of influence affect us positively and negatively. We listenand then we act. We are humans, and we grow and learn imitating what others do.  Yet, there’s acertain point in everyone’s life where the question “what am I here for?” comes around. When this influence is left alone, aside, and permeated from our mind, soul, and body, then the answer comes as if it was always there waiting to be discovered.

I could exclude all these influences a while ago that did not let my real truth cometo me. I’m free and ready, andcurrently working on my reality. The reality I create. The reality I decide. The reality that IS true to me.

Do you still believe in predetermined, writen, and controled destiny? Do you?