Happened for a Reason or Destiny?

Michael was on his pleasure walk. It’s his regular evening exercise with the purpose of enjoying scenic beauty around the route. On that particular evening, everything was as usual, except a kid playing with a cute puppy on the roadside.

The puppy was very small, probably couple of weeks older. The boy chained puppy as the symbol of ownership. Even though the boy seemed from a poor family; he was feeding biscuits to the puppy. One can see the love and attachment for the pup in his eyes, but at his age, he was unable to make out the fact that the puppy is too small to be chained. Michael decided to talk to the boy and to explain him the risk of choking the puppy.

Michael paused to interact with the kid. After few minutes of confab, the kid, Stuart, gelled with him. Stuart pointed finger to a roadside shack to show his home to Michael. He started sharing the story of this doggy. The mother doggy delivered five puppies near his school. Within a week, the dam died due to some unknown reason and the puppies were all by themselves. They were at the risk of starving. School kids provided some milk from their pocket money to save them. Later on, the boys realized another risk to puppies' life; being killed by other street dogs. To save them, each of Stu’s friends took one puppy as pet. He got this one and named it as Billy.

What a great thought by group of small kids!! They actually saved 5 lives. Michael praised Stuart and his friends for their good work. He also offered some money for the milk and biscuits. With all the affection in his words, he drew Stuart’s attention to the chain and explained the risk of choking off Billy. Stuart happily agreed and immediately unchained the whelp. In just couple of weeks Billy’s life was saved third time! It must have solid lifeline! 

Michael continued on his path with the satisfaction of absolving a soul from chains. The next evening, Michael spotted Stuart at the same place, alone and deeply saddened. After talking to him, Michael learned about the accident. Last night, unchained Billy hit the road and was crushed by the garbage truck! 

Without saying a word, with numbed Michael started walking.

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What went wrong? How could Billy die? It had been saved thrice from death like situations, or was it a destiny for Billy? Living as street dog, Billy might have survived through starvation. It might have been accepted by other dogs, but being Stuart’s pet it got chains. With the chain, Billy might have endured from choking, but unchaining definitely killed it. 

On every decision point, aim was to help Billy. Helping him to survive was actually leading to the certain death. Life is full of uncertainty, isn't it?

There is a supreme force, driving the universe. Every event or incident happens, happens for a reason. Certain events are destined to happen. We may interfere to make things better, or we think we are making it better. The fated may get delayed, may choose different path, but will happen. Happen for sure! 

Whenever we loose some valuables, or we are at the bad phase of relationship, or one of our near ones leaves us... accept it as destiny. It was bound to happens, it was scripted by the universal force. Many times, we see someone suffering, we try hard to help, but that help doesn't suffice to end the trouble... try to be positive. We shouldn't stop adding efforts for helping, we shouldn't give up. But we shouldn't lose our hearts, if things doesn't go our way. Once we reach at the end of logical reasoning, after adequate efforts, accept the situation as the chosen by fate. At this stage, we may unable to understand the rationale or are futile to connect the dots, but it is part of some bigger picture. The best thing about destiny is, it is invisible. We have to try, try harder until we are out of pointers.

All the life events that happen, always lead to a next event and the cycle goes on and on. If someone lost the job, feeling sad and shattered; it can be the ground for getting better opportunities in life. May be it is the almighty's way of inspiring the person to do something better, something he would have never dared to do.

May be I am writing this for some reason and as reader you are hear for some reason!