I'd like to talk to you today about "Life Changing Moments". As you read earlier, we had just lost one of our puppies. This would be considered a life changing moment. It is a moment in our lives that changes us in some way. Whether in the way we feel, think or act, it changes the way we live from day to day. If we change jobs, are expecting or have an addition to our family, move to a new home, these all effect our lives and change the way we live from that moment forward. We need to make decisions every day, all day long. Some are conscious and some subconscious. Every decision we make effects or lives in some way. Say for instance you decide to take a different way to work today and end up hitting a deer. Your earlier decision set the coarse for coming events. Some people believe different things when it comes to what happens in our lives. Is it karma, luck or maybe fate? Did we somehow create this situation in our minds and will it to happen? Ever have a feeling that something was wrong or something bad was going to happen? Maybe you felt really good and just knew deep down that it was going to be a great day. Let us take a look at how our decisions effect our ability to achieve success.
* Please note that the following is an opinion or observation and is meant for the reader to make their own conclusions!*
kar·ma /ˈkɑrmə/
[kahr-muh]
–noun
1. Hinduism, Buddhism . action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation: in Hinduism one of the means of reaching Brahman. Compare bhakti ( def. 1 ) , jnana.
2. Theosophy . the cosmic principle according to which each person is rewarded or punished in one incarnation according to that person's deeds in the previous incarnation.
3. fate; destiny.
4. the good or bad emanations felt to be generated by someone or something.
Karma, a concept that has been around for centuries. Many cultures believe that events that happen are caused be things we have done or not done. Good or bad, karma has a way of evening things out. Good deeds lead to prosperity, bad deeds lead to despair and ruin. I have been doing much research on mind influences and manifestation. It seems to me that when you believe strongly enough and you focus your energies to achieving what ever it is you want to accomplish, it is bound to happen. Just as if you constantly worry about something. If you direct positive energy towards it than a positive solution or result will transpire but if you direct negative energy toward it than the results will come about in an undesirable way.
I know a college student that comes from Nepal. Through his experiences you could say that he has great karma. He has been able to travel the world with different scholarships and is using his knowledge to help a remote village in Nepal to build a school. He plans on helping them for a year to learn better ways to farm and become more productive. He is realizing his dreams and making them a reality with the support of many people he has met along the way. He is a true success and is looking towards a very fulfilling life helping his own people.
[luhk]
–noun
1. the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
2. good fortune; advantage or success, considered as the result of chance: He had no luck finding work.
3. a combination of circumstances, events, etc., operating by chance to bring good or ill to a person: She's had nothing but bad luck all year.
4. some object on which good fortune is supposed to depend: This rabbit's foot is my luck.
—Verb phrases Informal .
5. luck into / onto, to meet, acquire, become, etc., by good luck: She lucked into a great job.
6. luck out, to have an instance or run of exceptionally good luck: He lucked out when he made a hole in one during the tournament.
7. luck upon, to come across by chance: to luck upon a profitable investment.
—Idioms
8. down on one's luck, in unfortunate circumstances; unlucky: She hated to see her old friend so down on her luck.
9. in luck, lucky; fortunate: We were in luck, for the bakery was still open.
10. luck of the draw, the luck one has in or as if in drawing cards.
11. out of luck, unlucky; unfortunate: When it comes to getting World Series tickets, we're usually out of luck.
12. push one's luck, Informal . to try to make too much of an opportunity; go too far. Also, crowd one's luck.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME luk < MD luc, aphetic form of gelucke; c. G. Glück
Luck, can be good or bad and is attributed to chance (see above). What can I say here, luck is more of an excuse then applicable fact. It would seem fair to say that luck is created and doesn't just happen. Bad luck comes about from thoughts of bad things that could happen and when we worry about it that much, it's bound to happen. Good luck seems to keep on coming when we feel good about what we are doing and the events in are lives are good. Here again it would be the though process that wills the good things to come into our lives. When we are experiencing bad luck we tend to blame everyone or everything but ourselves. Remember that it's our decisions that create the path ahead.
fate /feɪt/
[feyt] Show IPA
noun, verb, fat·ed, fat·ing.
–noun
1. something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot: It is always his fate to be left behind.
2. the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed; the decreed cause of events; time: Fate decreed that they would never meet again.
3. that which is inevitably predetermined; destiny: Death is our ineluctable fate.
4. a prophetic declaration of what must be: The oracle pronounced their fate.
5. death, destruction, or ruin.
6. the Fates, Classical Mythology . the three goddesses of destiny, known to the Greeks as the Moerae and to the Romans as the Parcae.
–verb (used with object)
7. to predetermine, as by the decree of fate; destine (used in the passive): a person who was fated to be the savior of the country.
Origin:
1325–75; ME < L fātum utterance, decree of fate, destiny, orig. neut. of fātus, ptp. of fārī to speak
—Can be confused: fate, fete (see synonym note at this entry ).
—Synonyms
1. karma, kismet; chance, luck. Fate, destiny, doom refer to the idea of a fortune, usually adverse, that is predetermined and inescapable. The three words are frequently interchangeable. Fate stresses the irrationality and impersonal character of events: It was Napoleon's fate to be exiled. The word is often lightly used, however: It was my fate to meet her that very afternoon. Destiny emphasizes the idea of an unalterable course of events, and is often used of a propitious fortune: It was his destiny to save his nation. Doom esp. applies to the final ending, always unhappy or terrible, brought about by destiny or fate: He met his doom bravely. 7. foreordain, preordain.
Fate or as some call it destiny, is the end of all ends. People who believe in fate, believe that everything has been predetermined and we have no control over where we are going or where we will end up. As in Star Wars "It is your destiny". People who believe in this concept end up living varied lives. One person may be sheltered and very reserved hoping they are not fated to some doomed life while others will do anything and everything saying "I'm destined for greatness". Fate is like having someone else pick our path and nothing we say or do will change it. I believe we make our choices and those choices determine our fate, luck or pending karma. These will decide if we will create or destroy our chances for success.
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