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How To Selfill Your Life's Purpose By Dena Botbyl

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It is said that all things happen for a reason, a season or a lifetime, but is it true? The thought of our lives being predetermined alone is enough to have everyone wondering, do things truly happen for a reason or is our life nothing more than “meaningless accidents” or “coincidences” that decides our consequences and accomplishments”? The movie Serendipity thoroughly explores that concept through a series of events that occur between two characters that proves that there are certain events in our life that are inevitable because they are supposed to happen. In the movie Serendipity, Johnathan and Sara coincidentlly met each other while buying the same cashmere gloves for their boyfriend and girlfriend as a Christmas gift. They causally talked another person from buying them and from that moment on were hooked to one …show more content…

He believed that it was a sign that he was supposed to get married, he said “Maybe the absence of a sign is a sign” but who is to say that it was a sign? Anything could be considered a sign if looked at from any perspective. According to the article Fate vs. Freewill: How to Fulfill Your Life’s Purpose by Dena Botbyl explains “The universe is constantly sending us signs. We must choose to acknowledge those signs, accept them, and take action” (Botbyl). Whether the signs of our fate are true or not they are not always left to us decide. Some people believe that our life is governed by God, or some sort of Supreme Being that ultimately decides what happens to us during our life. When she walked out of his life after that one night they spent together could have easily been a sign that it was not meant to be, but something inside of him told him not to give up, hearing her name several times and occasionally running into that book with her phone number in it triggered him to make impulsive decisions regarding his

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