Fate

Fate; I was talking to one of my friends the other day who had just recently gotten together with someone, and we talked about fate. And how it happens and how when you find the right person at the right time then it happens.

So that got me thinking about fate in general. I mean, what if it's the right person but wrong timing? Does that mean you would go around in circles until you end up together or does the fate just end there?

If you have watched multiple movies or Chinese dramas, you should be familiar with the following scene:

Girl meets guy, and you, as the audience KNOWS that they are meant for each other. Because it's obvious, but somehow, those actors seem so oblivious to your shouts of, "OMG, she's the one for you (or vice versa)" or "CAN'T you SEE?"

And what if we are like that in real life? What if because we watched all those movies and somehow, we feel experienced and mature, coming out and saying,'no, that won't happen to me" or " I won't miss it when it comes" And then spend half the time looking out for all those signs, for clues that might somehow lead to that person that you're fated to meet. And you look so hard, and you hope to find it. Always on the lookout, always being aware of everything so that you won't make a mistake of being blind.

But really. Sometimes, you look to hard that you miss what is right in front of you, and then you realise when its too late. Or maybe if you're lucky, you're just in time. And I think that it's fate's way of tricking us. I mean, think about it this way, you meet the right person but the timing is all wrong, and somehow, because of that, you are able to be taken off your guard and you can just realise it effortlessly as you go along that the person u were fated to meet was there all along and I think that makes it all the more meaningful because, this was how it was meant to be in the first place. And realising that you have fallen in love without knowing must be the most magic feeling in the world, because you didn't force it and because you didn't expect it. It just happened.