I recently reread the Greek Tragedy Oedipus Rex written by Sophocles. In case you haven't read it or need to refresh your memory I wrote a little poetic synopsis... Ode to Oedipus by Irene Teesdale, =-)Hard times had befallen Thebes the city,
Oedipus the king rapt with pity
Long to get down to the nitty gritty.
Find one for whom King Laius lay dead
So ‘tis what the Oracle said
Cast him out or have his head.
Now these are the facts as they did unfold
A more sad tale has ne’er been told
Foretold of a life no man should live
Parents took the life that they did give
Sent out as an infant to die on the mount
A soft hearted shepherd they did not count
Oedipus fled his home as he knew he must
His life foretold welled within a grave disgust
He shall kill his father a murder so cold
And marry his mother, a deed so bold
In Thebes he did settle and build a life
He fell in love and married a widowed wife
The fallen kings crown place on his head
His queen had five children to replace hers dead
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Yet he did not escape the Oracle’s eye
For at his hand his father did die
And with his mother he naked did lie
And now poor Oedipus the truth being found
His wife laid dead and his eyes on the ground.
Now the idea most people glean from this tale of woe is that we are bound by our fate and we can not change was is "meant" to be. (Doris Day sang "What Will Be Will Be"), I think it is more about "Creating" ones life that accepting ones fate.
When we make a bond or "agreement" with someone that fate is fact, we make it so! It becomes an obligation we must fullfill. Do you think perhaps that if Oedipus's mother had laughed it off and raised the child herself that she would have at anytime Married Him!? I doubt it.
Don't build your life around around faults statements, or someone elses beliefs. You can and DO create your life exactly according to your beliefs....so my Dear One, always believe the best, you deserve nothing less.
