Destiny's Child (P.S: I'm so not talking about the band)

So I have finally figured out the whole "free will" concept. At least, in my head. It may be utter nonsense - but I think I can live in peace now. I used to think that free will is about getting everything in life to go your way as long as you worked hard enough for it. Now I have accepted one thing - if something has to come to pass - it will. However, if it's not meant to be, then you can hang yourself upside down for days at end willing it to happen - but it won't. The only choice that you have is the way you react to the good and bad that you may have to deal with from time to time. And experience has it - there's always something good, or at least something funny in every occurance in your life.

Attitude is everything. I have seen people cry about random "first world" problems and go into absolute depression because one small thing in life wasn't going their way (embarrassed to admit I was like that most of last year). I have been to lunch with people to expensive places just to be hear them whine all through about how terrible it all was - while observing poor workers having a ball with their meagre food rations on the way back.

You can have everything and be poor as hell - and have nothing and yet be rich -  as long as you are content. Again, being content does not mean sitting on your butt and not wanting anything ever again. It means enjoying where you are at the moment - while you may be working towards a distant dream - but you are happy where you are.

Doesn't it scare you that while you are cursing a gem of a life right now - which is perfect in itself (and I don't mean the crap we are sold on TV in the name of perfection) - in the hope of finding happiness somewhere somehow in the future - that these times are never to return and will be some of your best memories when you look back 10 years from now?

So why ruin the present? Live it up and make the moments count! You are free to be happy in all circumstances - you are free to create amazing memories right now - THAT is your free will. Stop trying to control the world - as long as you can control that mischievous mind of yours, you are set for life!