It’s certainly a real video game. Or do you mean the concept of destiny, as in fortune, or inevitable course of events? That has at one time or another been considered quite real in many cultures. I am destined to be a wall. You are destined to be a human. Beyond that, it’s hard to say.
Anything that is as powerful as love has the potential to cause pain, but it shouldn’t be a constant. If you are always in pain, meeting with a wellness coach (bit.ly/BC-wellness-coach) might help you to find healthier ways to have a relationship.
What if I just stay alone and raise ten cats in a cabin?
Kinda sounds like a plan, but I wouldn’t give up on the company of human people – they have a lot to offer, even if they’re not as graceful and beautiful as cats….
Why do we make the choice of the poet instead of the choice of the lover?
Sometimes it feels easier to observe from a distance than to take a risk on love. But the best writing always comes from lived experience and some risks are worth taking.
I’m so sad to see someone talking to another person who’s not me today (Valentine’s). But life’s a history/What’s done is done. I’ll move on and hope “tomorrow is another day.” –dingyang Z (Alice) (from Gone with the Wind)
Unrequited love is one of the hard parts of being a person with a heart and emotions. Moving on and looking towards a brighter future is a good plan. It make take time, but these feelings do fade.
What books do you recommend for Black History Month?
After the horrific shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in 2015, Chad Williams, a history professor at Brandeis, began the historian-crowd-sourced #CharlestonSyllabus, which in just a few days amassed several hundred titles. Here they all are in a WorldCat List: bit.ly/BC-charleston. Some more recent titles worth pursuing: Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson; The Disordered Cosmos, by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein; We Do This Till We Free Us, by Mariame Kaba; Stamped from the Beginning, by Ibram Kendi.