Dog's luck?

What do you do when things don’t come out the way you expected? You have carefully planned your agenda with the utmost care. It may be a long weekend in a beach, and then comes a big storm. It bloody contradicts the weather forecast… but it is there. Not to talk about some business appointment, that is also unexpectedly frustrated. Blimey! Whom do you take it with? Or you may also think it’s destiny. Fate. Give it the name you like the most. There must be some invisible hand, invisibly moving invisible strings, that visibly frustrates the appointment. But, after all… what is that thing called fate?

A man once went to see a sage, to ask him what fate is. The sage looked deeply into the man’s eyes. After a while he said, assumptions.

— “Assumptions? How is that?” asked the surprised bloke.

— “Easy to say” replied the sage. “You assume something will go well. Then it doesn’t. You call it bad luck. You assume something will go wrong. Then it goes well. You call it good luck. You assume that certain things will happen or not. Your lack of intuition is so, that you don’t know what will happen. You assume that the future is unknown. When you are caught out, you call it Fate.”

There is certainly something beyond our control. Beyond the weather forecast, beyond the World Leaders. Sometimes it startles us, like the unforecasted storm. We have seen this many times in our lives. But the principle behind this is something deeper that simply calling it fate, destiny, predestination, manifest destiny, unmanifest fate or what the fate. It is some sort of alarm clock that tells us that we may have been putting our attention in the wrong direction. We may have been taking the results for the cause. This needs a stop. A stop to be taken several times a day, to stop living on assumptions. Like when we come to crossroads and stop to take a look at the road map. If we don’t, we may be barking up the wrong tree. Arf!