What All Three Bring To The Table

Destiny: there are two different kinds ... the events that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future, and the hidden power believed to control what will happen in the future; fate. We have either said or heard the phrase “It is my destiny” or, “It’s his/her destinty to ....”

This could also be nothing more than being in the right place at the right time, or pure luck. But, when a person works hard at honing their craft (writer, painter, sculpturer, musician, doctor etc.), and they are believed to have a raw talent that can be defined and/or molded, whatever the choice made, it can be his/her destinty to achieve what they seek. “Destined for greater things.” Another phrase, “It’s in the cards.” As in, always known.

Which brings us to fate, and this too has two different meanings. The development of events beyond a person’s control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power. Someone or some thing drew you to a particular place, for don’t we all “Get that feeling” we have been in another place before or have met someone before and you can’t shake the thought/idea out of your head?

As fate would have it, we all came to Prose for the express purpose to express ourselves with words. Another example: As fate would happen; two people meet, fall in love, have children, grow old together and were content. This ties in closely with destinty.

On another scale, there are the things that cannot be explained and yet the unexplained puts a person in an unexpected situation. It may be paranormal, it could be being in the right/wrong place at the right/wrong time And where destiny led us to fate, fate in turn leads right back to destiny. As things are destined to happen, turn out, or act in a particular way. Saving a life is fate/destiny (if you are there at the time). Doing something you have never tried before and you end up liking it even though there was a risk factor involved, for it was fate that brought you to that moment to challenge yourself and no one else.

With inevitability, there is the Greek and Roman mythology of the three goddesses who presides over the birth and life of humans. Each person’s destiny was thought of as a thread spun, measured, and cut by the three Fates, Clotho (The Spinner, who spun the thread of life), Lachesis (The Appointer of Life who measured life), and Atropos (She who cannot be turned down, cut life short).

Inevitability, is when things are certain to happen. You are born, die, wake up, go to school, work, church, shop, eat, comminicate, and so forth. These are expected things we do as well as many others.

Though not asked for, there is another word that ties both destiny and fate side by side as well as the inevitable, and that’s kismet. Kismet is circumstance, destiny, doom, fate, fortune. Whatever choice/decision you make it is all part of the three points of the words destinty/fate/inevitability.

Are they different from one another? For myself, I say no. They are equally one to the other. And as fate would have it, I was destined to write this and it became inevitable that I would. It was kismet.