The Vagaries of Chance

I used to believe in destiny, but then life happened and I realised that it was all random. As human beings we are desperate to find patterns and reasons for what happens to us. Fate and destiny is an easy way to try to pretend that we are on a path. The fact is that the sheer amount of evidence to the contrary is overwhelming, and people who believe in fate or its more self important version, destiny, focus in on one situation where it ‘worked’ and ignore the 99 situations where it didn’t. Don’t get me wrong, I would love to believe in destiny but I have had to accept that there is no plan, divine or otherwise. We are cosmic accidents and so are our lives. If it brings you comfort to believe the opposite I am genuinely glad for you, but I can’t ignore the overwhelming evidence against that proposition.