Ali-style

Fate. You either believe in it or you don't. Or maybe you believe in it without realizing it, or wanting to admit it. After all, most of us like the idea of free will. But how do we balance that philosophical balm with the concept of destiny, which is also quite the balm in its own way? Simple - we take the obtuse advice of this tricksy li'l stone: We acknowledge that our swath has already been cut. Before each of us came into existence, that swath waited, for eons, for us to manifest and fulfill it. Ah yes, but we can also depart from the swath and see what it feels like to go off-roading, existentially, as it were. Because sometimes that's just more fun n' interesting. But too because sometimes, by off-roading, we realize that what we thought was our swath was actually the most mixed-up deadend badlands of 'em all. This is what it means not to depart from the path that Fate has assigned us. This is also what it means to stick & move, Ali-style.