Capturing the Stars : A Short Story Collection

Destiny

What is fate?

Is fate a faerie, a romanticized creature of the night, or a flighty bird which so easily takes wing? Could it be a wondrous happening, or a conniving, illusory being, stealing love that could have happened and dreams that could have come true?

Fate is a slippery sort of something that we've continually tried to idealize, to change for our own benefit. Somehow, we have always believed that fate was something out of our reach, far away from our control, something manipulated from high up on Mount Olympus.

Maybe we were wrong.

What if our fate was written in the stars from the foundations of time, if it was engraved into the dizzying vortex of forever? And if, right at the exact moment, we burst into this world to find our fate, to complete our destiny? Perhaps our lives were mapped before us, and all we have to do is follow the signs.

Could the infinity of stars in the universe hold the stories of generation upon generation? Could the sky contain it?

Choices - they are the forks in the road that lead to our destiny. For how could the continuum of time and space know afore the choices that my great uncle's aunt's daughter's husband would make? Simply, it could not.

There is a reason for everything. There is a purpose behind every event, behind every success, every mistake.

Or, perchance, could we create our own fate?

Could fate simply be the series of choices we make which lead to our destiny?