Do you believe in fate/destiny?
I don’t buy into magical thinking. You never hear someone say that their heart attack is fate or destiny. Those words are only used to describe when good things happen to you. What about when bad things happen ? Was my heart tumor destined? Was the stroke I barely survived fated? The fact that I survived had everything to do with the doctors and nurses who were knowledgeable enough to help me fight for my life. The stroke itself was likely my fault because I wasn’t paying attention to the symptoms of the heart tumor. I didn’t even know that you could get a tumor inside your heart. Or that a massive stroke could be a symptom. I’m not stupid enough to think that I lived through it because of anything other than my own strength and the fact that I was in public and only 5 minutes away from an ambulance. A stroke of luck. My life is the result of my choices. Not nearly all of them good, not all bad either. But they all culminated in the fact that I’m here today, a tad brain damaged, and permanently paralyzed, but here nonetheless.