Meant To Be

Marcus Aurelius said, ~Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people who fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.~ Let me ask you a question, have you ever felt like you just somehow knew that guy or girl for a very long time, but only just met that person? It's a somewhat unfamiliar, yet familiar feeling between two people who share a bond for reasons unknown. A bond in which both people considered one another close friends in another place, another time, and in some way their friendship transcended from deep within each other's souls. It's somewhat rare to have that connection/vibe/feeling just once in life, but to have it happen twice is truly amazing.

Every person has stumbled on to that one person by pure coincidence or circumstance. For the magic is in the air as a particular occasion such as Christmas and/or Valentine's day can make the setting absolutely right for romance to bloom. Yet, for that person or both people, second thoughts may occur and feel the timing was wrong. It's that uncertainty that can hold each of us back, for the simple reason that you or that person is involved with someone and it may not be written in the stars, so to speak. It's at that particular point where the decision is made to go separate ways and test the proverbial waters of fate, in a manner of speaking. For if destiny leads both back together then it will truly be a fairy tale ending.

In any case, fate and destiny can shuffle lives around like a deck of cards. Each shuffle can bring a person close to that one person and yet just miss him or her in mere seconds. Two separate lives going in different directions and with different people; but somehow their hearts will lead him or her to the same direction and that is to each other. If you think about it, each of us can never shake that feeling of that one person who you felt could have at least one more chance to find each other and reconnect. It's that debated word that ultimately questions whether or not there is someone out there for each of us who is thinking about us and smiling. For that particular word that is often debated is soulmates.

Inevitably, when matters of the heart are involved, it's best just to stop thinking and let it guide you; but hopefully in the right direction. In some ways, each of us will know and will be drawn together even though obstacles and unfortunate events may keep you apart for a while. Think about this, you never really know what that person's life was like before eventually meeting. One could ask one's self if that person's life was with the same unanswered questions that filled one's mind or was it mixed with a balance of the answered and unanswered? Sometimes, it's good to have friends that have your back and help you try to figure out those unanswered questions that may or may not get answered.

In retrospect, when it comes to love, whether it be fate or destiny, you have to ask yourself is it meant to be? I end this thought with a poem entitled "The Winds Of Fate" by Alexandra Webb which says:

~The winds of fate down through the ages tend to blow and change the pages bringing things we never expected, often so small they're not even detected.

Other times we feel like we're tossed to and fro on a ship that is lost in a tidal wave of raw emotion, feelings as deep as the deepest ocean.

The winds of fate can sigh or roar, they often delight in opening a door and shoving us through to sink or swim, leaving us there on the slightest whim.

Sometimes, though, they hold our hand, lead us gently to another land where we can dwell in harmony and peace and from our troubles get sweet release.

The winds of fate can bring a surprise so wonderful it can bring tears to our eyes. For when the destinies give us love, we can hear their laughter from high above.

They blew for us the loveliest breeze, their voices whispering through the trees, and touching us with a love so great we knew it had come because of fate.

You never know what the winds will bring, the snows of winter or flowers of spring, but keep the faith and always know the winds of fate will ever blow.~