Who would
have thought thinking about buses can bring someone to interesting
philosophical reasoning. I would have. This happened to me once already. I was
waiting with my friend for a bus number 6 to arrive to take us home. A bus with
the number 20 blinking on its led screen approached. As it stopped the number
20 suddenly changed to 6. Just like that. I was thrown aback. How even a small
change, like a number, can have a great impact on one’s perceiving of destiny.
Before the bus changed from 20 to 6 I knew instantly with just looking at it,
where it came from and I knew where it was going. But with that change, a bus,
that was “predestined” to go one way, suddenly became a totally new, different
bus, with new sets of bus stops and the past that does not correspond with the
one presumed for the number displayed.
I wondered then
how this can be applied to human experience. We all know how everyday common
incidents can affect the course of our lives. And similarly to the bus
situation, when I knew the path before and after it changed from one number to
the other - although they couldn’t be more different - I always know I am on
the “right” path, the one path that I am living right now, all the time. Never
mind the constant changes of hearts that I have. Which I do. A lot. It is
because the reality we perceive is not the reality of chances and options but
of things that occur, that through outcome of random events manifest from a
cloud of possibilities.
And this is
what I wanted to talk about in this entry. Being happy or lucky. Wait what? It
will all make sense in the end. Just stick with me.
