Did Destiny Bring Choices, or Do Choices Become Destiny? by Brent M. Jones →

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Do people enter our lives
for a reason?

Do they arrive
to change our direction,
open doors we had not seen,
or show us a path
we might never have found alone?

Perhaps they bring a lesson,
a question,
a possibility.

Perhaps they change us
simply by being there.

We may call it destiny,
chance,
or providence.

But whatever brings someone
or something into our lives,
what happens next
still asks something of us.

A choice.

We can step through the open door
or turn away.
We can accept the lesson
or ignore it.
We can change
or remain where we are.

Perhaps destiny does not decide
who we become.

Perhaps it only brings us
to the moment
when we must decide for ourselves.

Destiny may bring the moment.
Choice determines what we do with it.