Fate And Free Will Poem by Magdalena Biela

Fate And Free Will

Rating: 5.0


Omar Khayyam said in his Rubaiyat:

'Ignore that yesterday
you should have been rewarded and that you were not.
Be happy. Don't regret anything. Don't expect anything.
Your future is already written down in the Book
of which the pages are turned, as if by accident,
by the Wind of Eternity'.

He also wrote:

'Tis all a Chequer-board of nights and days
Where Destiny with men for Pieces plays:
Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,
And one by one back in the closet lays.'


I believe in Fate, Destiny, 'Ananké' as the Greeks call it. I do. But I have problems to accept that we are mere pieces on a chessboard in a game called Life. I also believe that the greatest gift of all Life gave us is 'the free will'.
I believe in predestination and the unseen hand writing our path before coming into the Light. Yet I choose to believe that I have the power to select my thoughts and my actions. This is a power I cultivated: to control my mind.
I can choose to think positively even then when Life throws at me the worst ordeals. I can choose to think good about people who may or may not be mean to me. I can choose to think that Life is beautiful, short and worth living in spite the many bad moments I may endure.
I can choose my friends. I can choose what I eat. I can choose the words I say on a daily basis. I can choose to be a good person, to do good deeds silently, to avoid hurting those who may come my way. I can choose whom I love, whom I marry, whom I avoid without causing them any pain. I can choose to be silent whenever, wherever I please. I can choose what and whom I believe in.
I believe that Omar Khayyam still is the wisest man who ever lived and his thoughts come through many lives to guide mine.

'Our days pass as fast
as the water of the river
or the wind of the desert.
But there are two days that
do not interest me: yesterday
and tomorrow.'

Fate And Free Will
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Kim Barney 06 November 2016

You can choose. You have your free will. You can select your own thoughts and actions. Therefore, you are not predestined to do any one certain thing. You have chosen to be a good, kind person who loves her fellow man, and I thank you for that.

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Sandra Feldman 02 September 2016

Enjoyed this poetic journey of free will very much! Free Will, ever gushing fountain of humanism, where the waters of happiness freely flow. No one knows how valuable, until the day, they flow no more. Phenomenal and very impressive work. congratulations

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