“There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them.”
- Nicholas Sparks (Message in a Bottle)
And some of these winds enter our lives with the fury of a storm. I assure you that Nicholas Sparks would have you believe in that too. Now I don’t say this to sound poetic at all. I am merely stating the truth. Nowhere does the truth make itself more perceptible, than in times of crises – like in this one instance.
Jim Davidson and Mike Price were hiking buddies, who decided in the summer of ’92 that they would summit the Mt. Rainier through a difficult, deserted route instead. What they didn’t realize was that they would be climbing the steps to Mike’s funeral. They were slowly making their way uphill when a snow bridge on the isolated route collapsed, an enormous avalanche exploded above head and just like that, the two of them plummeted 80 feet below – straight into a glacial crevasse. Buried way too deep in the snow, Mike was clearly dying. And Jim couldn’t do anything except try to keep him warm using his gloves and boots, and give him company, while trying to get out of the snow himself. He managed, but now he had a difficult decision to make – try to save himself, or stay with Mike and die of frostbite. He chose the former. Though he survived, he carried that survivor’s guilt for ages. What if he had stayed? Could he have done anything about Mike’s condition, other than the basic first aid possible? In the end, it all came down to that one undeniable thing – destiny. He’d done everything in his power but he knew Mike had death written in his fate. And today, there’s only acceptance. Jim has moved on and climbed many - a – hills since, staring destiny confidently in its face every time
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Yes, we sometimes fear the unexpected. But I know there is no way to avoid the pain that we must go through to find the other half - the truth. Because in the end, destiny is what we all seek.
I believe that whatever life puts us through and whatever we face is not entirely in our hands, but in what we are destined to end up with. We have all heard people saying “no matter what happened in my life, here I was destined to be.” It is absolutely true that no matter how hard u try to push destiny away, u can't really change what’s written in your fate. In a similar fashion, our end is not always in our hands but what has already been written by the Almighty. I do not say that one should follow the path where he has to passively surrender to fate. But dear fellow mates, all we can do is try and not give up the fight. Here’s a very simple question for you all. What will you bequeath your blame onto, in the eventuality that a person dies before reaching the hospital? First-aid, or just fate? For me it is entirely fate, for there are a lot of things that science cannot explain. Sometimes no matter how good the treatment is, the patient simply cannot make it because there is stuff that goes beyond the sciences. But we must remember that if the Creator planned our destiny, he also permeated immense courage into our souls. So we can fight out an ordeal. But just in case we can’t, He also gave us the courage to face the consequences – and to move on.
In the end, I would like to emphasize my point by saying that first aid is an open choice – I know most people always take it. But our destiny is ‘our’ future – like a forked road in the poem “The Road Not Taken”. It’s still a choice to make. But with destiny, you could never tell where the road leads you…because only time can do that …
Lots of love,
Author 'Div'
- Nicholas Sparks (Message in a Bottle)
And some of these winds enter our lives with the fury of a storm. I assure you that Nicholas Sparks would have you believe in that too. Now I don’t say this to sound poetic at all. I am merely stating the truth. Nowhere does the truth make itself more perceptible, than in times of crises – like in this one instance.
Jim Davidson and Mike Price were hiking buddies, who decided in the summer of ’92 that they would summit the Mt. Rainier through a difficult, deserted route instead. What they didn’t realize was that they would be climbing the steps to Mike’s funeral. They were slowly making their way uphill when a snow bridge on the isolated route collapsed, an enormous avalanche exploded above head and just like that, the two of them plummeted 80 feet below – straight into a glacial crevasse. Buried way too deep in the snow, Mike was clearly dying. And Jim couldn’t do anything except try to keep him warm using his gloves and boots, and give him company, while trying to get out of the snow himself. He managed, but now he had a difficult decision to make – try to save himself, or stay with Mike and die of frostbite. He chose the former. Though he survived, he carried that survivor’s guilt for ages. What if he had stayed? Could he have done anything about Mike’s condition, other than the basic first aid possible? In the end, it all came down to that one undeniable thing – destiny. He’d done everything in his power but he knew Mike had death written in his fate. And today, there’s only acceptance. Jim has moved on and climbed many - a – hills since, staring destiny confidently in its face every time
.
Yes, we sometimes fear the unexpected. But I know there is no way to avoid the pain that we must go through to find the other half - the truth. Because in the end, destiny is what we all seek.
I believe that whatever life puts us through and whatever we face is not entirely in our hands, but in what we are destined to end up with. We have all heard people saying “no matter what happened in my life, here I was destined to be.” It is absolutely true that no matter how hard u try to push destiny away, u can't really change what’s written in your fate. In a similar fashion, our end is not always in our hands but what has already been written by the Almighty. I do not say that one should follow the path where he has to passively surrender to fate. But dear fellow mates, all we can do is try and not give up the fight. Here’s a very simple question for you all. What will you bequeath your blame onto, in the eventuality that a person dies before reaching the hospital? First-aid, or just fate? For me it is entirely fate, for there are a lot of things that science cannot explain. Sometimes no matter how good the treatment is, the patient simply cannot make it because there is stuff that goes beyond the sciences. But we must remember that if the Creator planned our destiny, he also permeated immense courage into our souls. So we can fight out an ordeal. But just in case we can’t, He also gave us the courage to face the consequences – and to move on.
In the end, I would like to emphasize my point by saying that first aid is an open choice – I know most people always take it. But our destiny is ‘our’ future – like a forked road in the poem “The Road Not Taken”. It’s still a choice to make. But with destiny, you could never tell where the road leads you…because only time can do that …
Lots of love,
Author 'Div'
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