Opportunities in Life

Are opportunities in life predetermined?

In my younger days I had a number of opportunities, some of which I recognised and I took. As I grew older I became more cautious and the number of chances coming my way seemed to decrease. Why were my opportunities so numerous when I was young and so few as I got older? Maybe being young I was not so fearful and prepared to take risks. Put in a more physical way, my energy, my mind, my thoughts, were generating the very environment around me.

That the mind generates the conditions around us is also evident in a negative way. Take for example a case where we are aware of a guilty secret. Most of us become so preoccupied by it that we broadcast it to those experienced and able to receive the message. Our subconscious mind can give us away.

We could use a scanner of sorts able to pick up on those signals. Our bodily functions such as our heart or sweating could give us away every time someone mentioned the event that we hold as a secret. Sometimes we could even bring about the thing that we would be trying to avoid simply by thinking about it. Dreading a certain event or even a certain illness, we would be likely to create the conditions for it to happen.

Now assume that all possible opportunities are out there. If we start the day by focusing on positive wants then we home in on those that we want to happen. Negative events are passed by as if they did not exist at all. Our minds suppress them.

So back to opportunity. All possibilities exist at the same time and if we want to do something badly enough we beam the light of energy from our wants onto it and activate it. We have tuned ourselves to it; we have created that opportunity because we wanted it to happen. Our ambitions, our dynamism, our desires to achieve, they create our chances.

Ask and you shall be given, says the Bible. That’s about it really; God that answers our prayers lies deep inside us. It’s to us, our inner selves that we have to address the request.

When we get old and play safe we focus on the risk more than the value of the opportunity. It is that we have little ambition anymore, we no longer want things badly enough. A paradox really because in old age we’d have little to lose if we dared.

We see the external world as we create it!