When I was a kid ( now I'm a teenager, yeah!) I used to read these books - Goosebumps and in some special editions, R.L. Stine would write an incident on a page and at the bottom he'd say " Go to page 13 to enter the mummy's tomb." or " Go to page 43 to fight the cyborg." And you were left with a very definite choice.... meet the mummy and not the kind to offer lemonade or go against all your instincts and fight with a human-machine. It was simple definite and though you were going to die anyway in the end, you made the choice.
Lately, I have been thinking about chances, kind of like in Goosebumps. Maybe you go to a sing-along and you unleash your singing prowess and it just so happens that a big-shot music producer signs you on or you go to a sing along, hide in a corner, pray no one calls you on, drink cranberry juice and miss any opportunity at all. Life doesn't give out obvious choices but like it or not, every step we take towards a place could very well seal our fate.
What if Nirbhaya (the gang-rape victim) had gone to a different bus stop or what if she had taken an auto? We can't control our fates but then who controls us or does anyone? Is there some kind of invisible, giant puppeteer holding all the strings, entwining our paths?Or maybe we make our own destinies, maybe every step we take is all because of us but what if , just like in those Goosebumps special editions even though we make those little choices that get us from one place to another, we always end up the same way?
So like I wrote earlier, maybe that you got signed on by a music producer because you sang at a sing-along or you hid from the stage and missed the chance, well, what if you got a little tipsy when you went home and uploaded a video of your cover of Jessie J's "Price Tag" and got spotted by a record label?
So, I think I've gone around in a circle and confused everyone but what I want to say is that if it's meant to be then it's meant to be. If its meant for you then you'll get there some day!
Lately, I have been thinking about chances, kind of like in Goosebumps. Maybe you go to a sing-along and you unleash your singing prowess and it just so happens that a big-shot music producer signs you on or you go to a sing along, hide in a corner, pray no one calls you on, drink cranberry juice and miss any opportunity at all. Life doesn't give out obvious choices but like it or not, every step we take towards a place could very well seal our fate.
What if Nirbhaya (the gang-rape victim) had gone to a different bus stop or what if she had taken an auto? We can't control our fates but then who controls us or does anyone? Is there some kind of invisible, giant puppeteer holding all the strings, entwining our paths?Or maybe we make our own destinies, maybe every step we take is all because of us but what if , just like in those Goosebumps special editions even though we make those little choices that get us from one place to another, we always end up the same way?
So like I wrote earlier, maybe that you got signed on by a music producer because you sang at a sing-along or you hid from the stage and missed the chance, well, what if you got a little tipsy when you went home and uploaded a video of your cover of Jessie J's "Price Tag" and got spotted by a record label?
So, I think I've gone around in a circle and confused everyone but what I want to say is that if it's meant to be then it's meant to be. If its meant for you then you'll get there some day!
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