gomboc mind cuss

fate is a rather curious thing. it's a multidimensional collision of serendipity and murphy's law possibly extending beyond the space-time continuum. the improbable alignment of events in such a way that results in a rather statistically improbable outcome. all in all, it's quite the mind cuss for me. i'd consider myself a scientist - loosely, if you will - whether physical, social, or other. so to believe in the concept of fate is a bit of a leap of faith, something i don't prefer to rely on. yet we could say i was fated to believe in fate. roll your eyes, here it goes.

but really, there must be some formula that quantifies the whole shebang, or we can promote or relegate it to nature's design. pi? gomboc? fibonacci? nautilus? fractals? tessellations?

so every once in a while, ask yourself how you got where you are. how events have played out given that you chose this path in the last fork you came across. why you came across the people you came across. people enter your life for a season, a reason, or a lifetime. there is reason even in that season.

next time you hit that snooze button, think of how the rest of your day will change and the ripple effect it will have on person x displaced y degrees from you in 50 years. maybe you narrowly dodge a ridiculously gnarly accident on the freeway, bump into someone you spend the rest of your life with, or come across someone who can use your help. a certain commercial bores you at a particular moment and you change the channel and see something you later end up discussing with someone. the fortune cookie you chose from the dish - the fact that you're at the restaurant at that day at that time and asked for the check at that particular moment.

of course we can toy with the concepts of karma, optimism, pessimism, and the like - dragging them into a perfect tessellation of an equation - in the sense that we have become beings with endless predilections that tend us towards some events more than others, resulting in predictable outcomes. what comes around goes around?