Que Sera Sera

What will be, will be…

A haunting, yet strangely soothing line…

Why is it haunting? At first glance, it seems to imply that we don’t have free will…that no matter what we do we can’t change the course that the universe has set for us…

Is that what it is? That no matter how much we struggle, work, push ourselves and build, it all falls down to what is fated?

What a fatalistic view!

But then why is it soothing? Despite our best efforts, struggles, work, and stretching ourselves, we tend to fret and worry…

We worry that our efforts are not good enough…that we aren’t up to the mark…

That we don’t deserve what we hope to be and get…

But que sera sera - what will be, will be…

What is meant for us, is meant for us…

What we will be, we will be…

Our destiny is waiting for us, to walk towards it…

What then, is our task?

The wind of grace and destiny is blowing in our favour…

Before, our task was to row and row, until the favourable wind came…

And now that the wind has come, our task is to unfurl the sail…

To set the rudder in the right direction…

To steer our ship to avoid the sharp rocks and wicked whirlpools…

Our task is to focus our mind on the course ahead of us…

Minute by minute, day by day…

And surely, we voyage towards our blessed destiny…

Que sera sera, whatever will be, will be…

The future’s not ours to see…

Que sera sera…

What will be, will be...