le raisonnement de la raison || the reasoning of the reason

I have never believed in luck, chance, fortune. Given my "luck" if you will, I shouldn't be expected to either. However, it is not through contempt that I harbor ill feelings against luck. In fact, it's not contemptuous at all. I just simply don't believe in it.

To be precise, I suppose more than luck, it's actually coincidence that I have no faith in. You see, it has always been my philosophy-- no, more than that really-- my whole mentaility, that never happens by chance or accident.

Now, I don't put stock in "fate" or "pre-determined actions" or anything like that, which sounds contradictary I realize. But that's not to say I don't believe in destiny. My take on that is that we are not fated to one thing or another without a choice, but rather that we all have a purpose or intended path that we are capable of taking upon ourselves, and the decision to do so lies within each of us. Therefore, even destiny lies within our ability and right to choose.

And as it has been said, it our choices, far more than our abilities, that make us who we are. Or will be. As long as we have that choice, even fate doesn't stand a chance against us.

It has always been my opinion-- at least for as long as I've been able-minded enough to have opinions on such matters (for me, the young age of 12 or so)-- that everything happens for a reason. There is no chance, no mere coincedence. These things were meant to happen, for reasons that we cannot always understand, and some of which we never will, and perhaps will never be meant to. But there is a reason for it all.