People often believe that there is an irresistible force behind things that happens to one, especially that for which they do not desire.

I personally still struggle to convince myself that there's really a thing as "DESTINY", because in sincerity, I am yet to find reasons to believe they existed.

However, for my curiosity and want of knowledge, I have personally tried to engage people in some meaningful discussion while I cautiously strive to learn and unlearn. I have always been so honest to ask, "What exactly people think or say Destinies were", for if it meant those inevitable possibilities that happens to one during their course of life, whether they strived or not, then... Destiny, perhaps doesn't exist.

Someone once assured me that, destiny exists but can be changed by one's action or inaction; Another insisted that Destiny was the same as Potential and can be tapped, or untapped; I cracked and started laughing terribly (forgive me) because if destiny existed in it's true form as something that must happen to one, and is ideally believed to have been outrightly designed by the Creator, then it should essentially be unalterable.
And if it were unalterable, Why then do people who had Destinies take their lives? Or cut short their Destinies, like some would prefer to call it??

The major lie however is in how people always blamed "DESTINY" for their misfortunes, and "LUCK or GRACE" for successes. Is destiny then a negative force?
What then had happened to "thinking smart and working hard?

Again, If destiny existed, what then is the bases of exercising faith in the Creator, having created man with specific roles and purposes, and to the extreme, known their ends from their very beginning?
What then had happened to the "Free Will (Choice to live and choose) and the ability to Create and Procreate" that He'd ultimately granted man by virtue of our semblance with Him, having created "Man in His own image"??

If Destinies existed, humans are no less than robots who operated on chips and the complex codes of their Programmers, as they lacked the ability and franchise to act beyond the scripted.
I also want to believe in the unsaid rewards of hard work, determination, smartness, and grace.

All there is in life, whether good or bad are products of our actions and inactions, not slighting the possibilities of a little bit "luck", which I would most comfortably term "Grace".
Or Otherwise, let me humbly beg that the brightest side of my Destiny meets me now that I needed it the most.
Yours,
✍🏾...
*Maveriqué Richard*