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| The Three Sisters of Fate |
Once upon a time, there was a soul, a soul to reborn onto Earth. It went with the other souls to a grand hall.
At the grand hall were three sisters. The youngest of them
all, a maiden called Clotho was spinning all kinds of thread. Blue ones, red
ones, threads of gold, of silver, of copper, of cotton, of all kinds of
material and colours that you could possibly imagine. That's not all. In fact,
each thread was very special indeed. Each thread represented a human life.
Clotho weaved into each thread a person's parents, date and
place of birth, appearance, gender, strengths and weaknesses, personality and
many more. When she was done with each thread, she passed them to her older
sister, Lachesis, who presented them to the souls. The souls got to choose the lot
of thread that they want. Once the thread was chosen, the oldest sister of them
all, Atropos, snipped it. The length of a thread determined how long a person
could potentially live. And no, there's no bargaining with Atropos. She's the
feared one and no one ever dared to negotiate with her for fear of a even
shorter life.
Once each soul had chosen his lot, it must be on its way to
incarnate as a human being. Before it could enter Earth, it had to drink from
the river of forgetfulness so that it would forget the lot it had chosen - its
life choice.
I know you didn't "choose" your lot in life. And
logically, you would chosen a much better lot. The truth is you can't change
your lot - your parents, the natural colour of your eyes, your country of birth
and so on. Rightly or wrongly, you are dealt with a set of cards. Where you get
to in life depends on how you play the cards that you are dealt with.
Certainly, the other card players affect the way you play your own cards.
That's life and you can't control how the game goes. You just have to do your
best. Or you could get someone else to play your cards, e.g. the government
or othersm and relinquish the control of
your life to them.
People say when life gives you lemon, make lemonade. That
assumes that lemons are rotten and useless stuff. The truth is, lemons are
great detoxifying fruits. It removes the toxic in your body when taken
properly. Naturally, the detox process can make you feel sick and weak which
can have you screaming and crying away. But, you end up in a better place after
some time. That is, if you choose to recognise the numerous uses of lemons. So,
I say, when life gives you lemon, make lemonade, use it for detox, use it for
all these purposes. Your lot is never what you think it is.
