Fate, Free Will, Friends and Revolution

Ripples spread across the puddle with each drop of rain. The same raindrop is swallowed by the ocean.

Your life is greatly determined by forces outside of your control, influence, and knowledge. You were born into a family, culture, nation, and time period you did not choose. The ebb and flow of national and international economics and politics are beyond your influence. Cultural forces exerting oppression, suppression, and privilege exist, grow, and relax without much input from you.

But your choices in the ocean of humanity matter.

Your choices to grow and love move you into new parts of humanity. The way you treat people moves a brick in the wall of cultural boundaries. Money you gather from work and investments and use to create wealth and family makes a tally in the economists’ spreadsheets.

Free will decisions reinforce or cause a revolution in fate’s current.

Religion, philosophy, politics, and all levels of human social organization create meaning, purpose, and action around the human condition. And in a world of 8 billion people, nuclear warheads, artificial intelligence, fast food, and information at your fingertips 24-7 seeing the impact of our raindrops is difficult.

You need friends to mark and make the changes life demands.

Drip drop. The growing pond that is your family needs your input here and here and there.

Drip drop. Your spouse needs attention, security, and appreciation only you can provide.

Drip drop. Work gives you a means to sustain life and the choices you and your family make in this world.

Your friends see you putting yourself into ponds, puddles, lakes, and streams building your life and legacy. Your friends appreciate the ripples nudging, bobbing, and guiding them along. Your friends know when you are running low and giving the last drop.

Your friends see the revolutions you are making against fate and stand with you in every challenge of change.