Life and the Paths We Take

How many times has one of these questions crossed your mind?

What if I had done things differently?

What if I had chosen a different path?

For some of us that question pops up with a fair bit of frequency and then for others it only pops up when things don't go their way. What is the answer though? Would things be radically different if you had chosen a different path or done things differently? The answer is that we shall never know. Mainly because that is the past and there is nothing that we can do in regards to changing the past. Better yet if we did have the power to go back in time would the result still be the same regardless of the path that we take.

Are we predestined to the extent that even if we change the path the end result is still the same. Look at the Time Machine. Guy Pierce's character goes back to try and stop the murder of his fiancee. Yet no matter how hard he tries to prevent the incident from happening it still happens. There is nothing that he can do to stop the incident from happening.

Are our life's the same? Are our lives predestined or do we always have a choice?

There is part of me that wants to go with our lives are predestined but then again I'm a Gemini and like to look at both sides. Thus in true fashion there is part of me that thinks that we always have a choice. At least the choice always presents itself. Whether or not we choose to take that choice is up to us, which leads to another choice. Which would present that there is always a choice. However, none of this can be tested until some reader out there can come up with a means to test it via a time machine. Maybe one day we will get there. Maybe.

So what brought this thought to light? Something dad mentioned to me that I had forgotten. Marketing. Marketing would have been my major in college had I not had the English teachers that I did starting in high school and continuing into college. So what's my point? My point is that I was wondering would my life be different had I chosen that particular path. Would I have a career by now? Hard to tell especially with the state that our economy is in. It's all hard to tell because the reality is though there are a lot of good things in life that I have and had the chance to experience on my current path.

So maybe wondering is in itself not worth it beyond the usual flight of fancy. Since we can't change the past and we don't want to risk changing and losing our present. We at the end of the day just have to accept that this is our life whether or not it's the path that we envisioned ourselves to be on. Perhaps the faith should rest in one's self. Faith that we will know what to path to choose and what is right for us. I think at the end of the day I think that is all that we can ask for and of ourselves.