a roll of the dice
Current Mood: Contemplative
I've been thinking too much these past few days.
Today we discussed witchcraft in class, and how many African people don't
believe in such a thing as Chance or Luck or Fate -- everything happens
because someone with supernatural powers makes it so.
I believe in Chance. Maybe Destiny, maybe Fate. I dunno.
But I was just listening to a song that reminded me of who I was a long time
ago, and how a simple decision I wrestled over four years ago could have, had
I decided against it, precluded one of the best things in my life today.
Weird how that happens.
Then I was reminded of a conversation Lisa and I had back in high school, on
one of those lazy spring spares spent in the Lisgar mall (space between the
two buildings).
We were talking about soul mates, and Destiny, and Chance. And this is what
we came up with:
I believe that everyone has not one soul mate, but many. Each one of these
soul mates, wherever in the world they may be, I picture them as tinted a
shade of red, like in that Sims game where they wait for the elevator and get
angry and turn red -- like that. How many and who your "red people" are is
dependent on the decisions you (and they) make and how everyone constantly
changes. So your red people quota is always in flux. Depending on what you
decide to do one day or the next, some red person somewhere will cease to be
red; likewise, another person somewhere could suddenly turn red -- all
depending on the irrationality of human nature.
Weird.
Posted by Ally at February 7, 2005 09:20 PM