WHO AM I?
From 1968 to 1973 comedians Dan
Rowan and Dick Martin hosted the weekly comedy variety series on NBC called “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh In”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_%26_Martin%27s_Laugh-In
Each
week the, two presented an award for the most dubious achievement; the dumbest,
craziest news item of the week. The “Flying
Fickle Finger of Fate” Award was also called the “Rigid Digit”, the “Winged
Weenie”, the “Friendly Phalange”, the “Nifty Knuckle” or the “Wonderful
Wiggler.” The award was a Gold/Silver sculpture of a hand with its index finger
pointing, adorned with two small wings. It rotated in a circular “Whoopie!”
circular motion. Recipients included the City of Cleveland whose Cuyahoga River
caught fire (due to pollution), The Pentagon (5 times), and L.A. Police Chief
Ed Davis who wanted to install gallows so that hijackers could be more easily
hung. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_M._Davis)
Esquire
Magazine ran “Dubious Achievement” awards annually for many years. You can
Google that title and come up with some laughers which many people post online.
Here’s
what others have said about “Fate.”
“Meaning is invisible, but the
invisible is not contradictory of the visible: the visible itself has an invisible
framework, and the in-visible is the secret counterpart of the visible.” M.
Merleu-Ponty, Working Notes[JY1] [JY2] (The Soul’s Code, James Hillman, pg. ix)
“Nature magically suits a man to
his fortunes, by making them the fruits of his character.” – Ralph Waldo
Emerson
“He that waits upon fortune is
never sure of a dinner.” Benjamin Franklin
“Fortune knocks at every man’s door
once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and
does not hear her.” Mark Twain
Are you living your fate or
destiny?
WHY IS FATE HERE?
Some will say there is
no such thing. It is all coincidence. That our brains are hard-wired to look
for meaning. This is all superstition. Baseball teams are not “fated” to lose.
Or win.
Or, is it actually possible that fate
is an agent that changes everything? Is it “fate” which causes my paramedic son’s
ambulance to arrive the moment before it is too late to save a life, and fate which
causes him to arrive a moment too late? Or are heavy traffic here, light traffic
there, the elements of fate?
Fate has been called the “guardian
angel” who at the last moment saves the child from plunging into the swimming
pool. The Ancient Greeks called fate “Okemah” and described it as the being
which carries you like a vehicle.
Others have called Fate “Lady Luck”
or “Fortuna”. To Eskimos and others who follow shamanistic practices, fate is
your spirit, your free soul, animal soul, your breath soul.
Some call it luck. What would you
call it when a person in a trailer in Kansas and a tornado rolls through and
they survive despite the fact that everything around them is totally
obliterated? Luck, right? Fate, right? But, are the people who live in Oklahoma
“lucky” over and over again when the tornado goes just over there? Are they now
unlucky because of fracking earthquakes or does “fate” have anything to do with
that? I like the Forest Ranger who has
been struck by lightning 6 or 7 times and lived to tell about it? Maybe they’ll
live to tell about hundreds of tremors a week and their survival will the the
amazing thing.
The reality is that we believe that
fate is a quality of being a part of
our lives. Fate is something else which cannot be explained by the physicality
of life. There is more to our lives then meets our eyes. That’s what humans
believe, don’t let any smart phone tell you different. It is more fun and rich to live a
life which has the random and unexplained in it.
Even mediocrity can be a “fate”,
right? It once was attributed to the “stars”.
Here’s Shakespeare’s “All’s Well That
Ends Well”: “We, the poorer born, whose baser stars shut us up in wishes…” Shuts
us up in wishes. Woulda. Coulda. Shoulda.
Mediocrity. Poor choices. Does fate
make those poor choices, or do I? Do we blame “fate” for our stupidity? Yes. I
can tell you that. Some people, let me raise my hand here, risk to draw on an
inside straight in poker, ignore symptoms in cancer (hand down), drive drunk
(hand down). We choose. Not fate. Duhh.
Each individual has genius, their
own unique selves. Now we’re at the good stuff!
But, genius belongs to everyone and
no person has all the genius or can be the only genius. What? But, I’m special,
right?
Genius may be an invisible escort
for a whole group of people. That family. That band. That team. That school.
Those gals. They know how to do it. They are special. Unique. More than just
one person in whom genius or character lives.
If you are fated you know that it
is not you that makes these “fateful” things happen. But, when it comes to
genius, we seem to claim our genius because we are special! Oh, sure!
WHAT DOES FATE WANT?
The “Flying Fickle Finger of Fate” sometimes points at you and
sometimes points away. It is important for you to look at your life and to
understand that there have been moments when fate has visited you and was with
you. Maybe saved you. Something impossible happened.
You should look at your children
and imagine that they and their lives will have moments of fate in which things
will become radically different and they themselves will be able to release
their own genius, or sink back into depression and despair. It can go either
way.
Fate wants you to know you can work
with luck, fate, destiny - work with others and help them understand that they
have gifts beyond belief locked in their little souls.
The intention is to broaden your
view of life so that you will not give up hope so that you know that your
genius in the right place and time can work miraculous things, can lift the
sinking spirit. So that, when you least
expect it, that winged weenie, wonderful wiggler and nifty knuckle will appear
for you.
© Copyright 2016, Jean W. Yeager
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