Popular Misconceptions

It seems to me that a lot of people, the western world in particular, have all these misconceptions about fate, luck and the future.

I don't really think I believe in luck. I mean, you do what you can, but what God has planned for you will happen no matter what you do, and sometimes it has nothing to do with you! Take, for example, two clerks. One works really hard, and the other slacks off, but for some reason the slacker gets a better job. People might attribute that to luck, but the truth is, God does whatever He wishes. I think people who don't believe in this, however, made up the whole "luck" thing, to clear up the mystery.

Also another popular misconception is fate. I noticed in most American movies that they think that some things happen because they're meant to be, or because it's fate. The truth is, everything that happens to everyone is fate. Fate is what's going to happen, and God has it already planned out before you're even born.

I really do think--due to my experience with movies, since I haven't had a chance for real live observation--that these misconceptions make people feel that life is surrounded in more mystery than it needs to be surrounded in.

Another thing I find really strange is that some Muslims, although they know that only God knows what's going to happen, still like to have their fortune read and read their horoscopes and that kind of thing. And some of them actually believe it! Excuse me, but how does some astrologer know that "this will be a month of a love" for you and about a billion other people?! It just doesn't make sense, but people still like to believe it, instead of what really does.

If those people who claim that there is no God just stopped to think, really think, they'd know they were wrong. But sadly, no-one even cares about that now. All people want are material things these days. I know I sound like a ninety-year-old, instead of a teenager, but that's really the truth. It doesn't give you much hope in the world either.