d'you know, i thought i was trying to figure out who was more yielding to circumstance. it didn't occur to me to add an option for not yielding to circumstance at all, but it seems i should have done :0)
On question two, I'd say I'm leaving it to a higher power or looking to a higher wisdom for some guidance. I don't think of 'fate' as something set in stone.
I took 'evolving' to mean growing in some sense: wiser, more at one with myself and the greater universe, etc. And I don't think that's mutually exclusive with being happy.
Also 'driven' is kind of a prejudicial term. I'd use 'fulfilled' as a broader term for what some people feel driven toward.
i used "leave it to fate" because of a friend i have who sometimes says this, and does it quite literally when faced with a choice. sort of an active invocation of fate, like, "hey fate, come choose something here, will ya?". would you say this approximately the same as looking to a higher power for guidance? or more extreme? or less?
i did mean evolving as growing, but i meant driven as... well, focused on something, perhaps to the exclusion of happiness or personal growth. i'm not sure why that's important to me, but a spot of introspection seems to indicate it is. i'm still pondering it.
I see a definite difference between leaving it to fate and looking for guidance from a higher power. It may just be a matter of semantics, but to me 'accepting fate' implies a passive acceptance of events beyond one's control, and accepting guidance is a more active state, even if things are still beyond one's control; one is doing something by seeking that guidance, and being prepared to act on it.
To my mind being driven is a thing not like the others. That is, one can be driven in one's search for happiness or growth or fulfillment, or one can approach any of those goals in a more casual manner, but I don't think that being driven is, in itself, the goal for most people.
Re: left the second one blanksharlabacchusDecember 15 2007, 18:39:11 UTC
again, i wish i could edit the poll -- cussing fate out is slightly different from kicking fate in the balls, i think, but it'd have been nice to capture that idea, too.
when things are out of my control, i say "why is this out of my control? am i sure it's out of my control? isn't there something in there i can control? like this? *tweak* or this? *whamcrashrattletinkle* is there a way i can convince others that it actually is under my control?"
earlier in my life i would have said it was more important to be evolving. now i pick happy. i'm fucking sick of evolving.
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The answers to your last question are quite similar -- are you testing whether we believe in fate? ^_^
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or would it not work if it was friendly, safe out-of-control?
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I took 'evolving' to mean growing in some sense: wiser, more at one with myself and the greater universe, etc. And I don't think that's mutually exclusive with being happy.
Also 'driven' is kind of a prejudicial term. I'd use 'fulfilled' as a broader term for what some people feel driven toward.
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"hey fate, come choose something here, will ya?". would you say this approximately the same as looking to a higher power for guidance? or more extreme? or less?
i did mean evolving as growing, but i meant driven as... well, focused on something, perhaps to the exclusion of happiness or personal growth. i'm not sure why that's important to me, but a spot of introspection seems to indicate it is. i'm still pondering it.
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To my mind being driven is a thing not like the others. That is, one can be driven in one's search for happiness or growth or fulfillment, or one can approach any of those goals in a more casual manner, but I don't think that being driven is, in itself, the goal for most people.
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earlier in my life i would have said it was more important to be evolving. now i pick happy. i'm fucking sick of evolving.
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