Serendipity ...

If you haven't guessed it as yet ... it means "A Fortunate Accident"
Playing on my comp is "Moonlight Kiss" which is the OST of a movie by the same name ...
Brilliant, slow song ... and the movie is pretty good too ...

Stars John Cusack and the ever so gorgeous Kate Beckinsale :)

Though, that is not the main reason for key-ing in this blog ...
Its about destiny ...

Was talking about destiny the other day with a friend ... and my mind threw in a lot of stuff ...
Ranging from the Matrix thingy about choice to even Einstein's theory of relativity to the bizarre time travel ideology ...

So, what exactly is destiny ?

As of yet, haven't gone through a life changing, destiny dependent situation ... so I'll sit on the fence for this one ...
Remember seeing a movie, a long time ago, called Mr. Destiny which had an average star cast, but the concept was pretty cool ...

It delved into idea of how every little thing we do, alters our future ...
( Coupling this with Merovingian's belief that there is no choice ... and the stuff that choice is an illusion , created by those with power for those without ... we are actually living a pre-planned life )
How do you know, that a choice that you made, was pre-decided ... and that you wouldn't have made the other choice anyways ...
There is no turning back and trying the other path is it ? Time is a one way street ...

Anyways, getting back to the movie, the plotline was hence :
There is this guy, the protagonist of the film, who as a kid ( teenager ) was an amazing baseball batsman ...
So, in this one baseball match final, last innings, they need a home run and he's on 2 strikes ...
He has the capability to hit one .... but as you guessed it, he misses ...
Everyone boos him and clear out ... he just sits in the stadium alone ... crying ...

This incident, haunts him throughout his life, and is probably the thing which he regrets the most ...
So, back to when he is old again, he is an average, middle class guy, gets an average salary and is married to a normal, not so good looking, average girl ( Sigourney Weaver ) I think ...

Anyways, so one really shitty night, he gets into a bar and bumps into one guy, who calls himself Mr. Destiny ...
He agrees to change one thing in his life, and this fellow asks for the homerun and the wish is granted ...

So, when he steps out of the bar, his entire life is changed ...
Because, when he hit the home run, he became a hero, started dating the daughter of an Industrialist, and now is married to her ...

Thus, to cut a long story short, it shows how a sequence of events takes root from things that we do ...
The fellow's original wife, was the only person, who came and consoled him after he missed the homerun ...
That incident got nullified when he hit the home run, and he actually, never met her ...

A very good friend of mine, will come up and say, that every second of our lives, parallel universes get created, by our every action ...
So, according to him ... in one of the universes, Hitler won the war, and is alive, and is ruling again ...

In one of the universes, someone made a wrong choice, and Gandhi wasn't assasinated, because the assasin couldn't get to him ...
Maybe he got to the place late, because someone else blocked his approach, becase someone else pushed the fellow ...

Makes you kinda think ...

In another universe, I've taken over the world ! :)