Monday, September 28, 2009

Weekly Blog: Week 6

Last week we discussed briefly the contrasts of fate and destiny verses free will. It posed a question that has lingered in my mind about how much fate plays into our lives and whether or not destiny decides what happens to us. I have always lived by "whatever happens is meant to be," but I also don't believe that the choices we make have no effect on our lives due to this idea and therefore that our destinies are predetermined. The thought has resonated with me and I can't seem to figure it out; to what extent is my 'motto' true, if true at all? I hope to focus on this question more as we continue reading and learning this year.
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  1. AnonymousSeptember 28, 2009 at 9:20 PM

    Thoughtful post, Miss Slaughter. In response to questions you raise here and your apparent tendency to lose things, I thought I would respond here with another poem, one of her best, by Elizabeth Bishop, whose poem is our Weekly Poem:

    One Art
    by Elizabeth Bishop

    The art of losing isn't hard to master;
    so many things seem filled with the intent
    to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

    Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
    of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
    The art of losing isn't hard to master.

    Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
    places, and names, and where it was you meant
    to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

    I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
    next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
    The art of losing isn't hard to master.

    I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
    some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
    I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.


    --Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
    I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
    the art of losing's not too hard to master
    though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

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