March 4th, 2023 – 1,620

~ Sam Shuttleworth

“Do you believe in fate/destiny?”

I believe in living life as if these are at your back, and riding out life’s many arcs as if there is purpose to them. As to whether such meaning exists, I see that as beside the point. Make your own destiny, live by your own fate.

Quiet Saturday, and I needed that for sure. Essay banked, which is a relief as I hated needing to take an extension yet again, but on reading the new one back, yeah I am glad I didn’t submit the disjointed one written when I was ill. Will this one do well? No idea, but it will pass, if only because it meets the bare functional needs of an essay. I’ll take that if nothing else, and hope that my interpretation of the texts makes for an entertaining and thought provoking read. That’s the highest honour a text can achieve is it not? Well, it is to me. And if my destiny lies in academics, as I hope it may still, then this is a valuable step towards the academic I wish to be.

Published by Sam Shuttleworth

I’m Sam, and I live to write. I spent most of the first 8 years of my adulthood trying to balance writing with a large amount of crap in my personal life, until towards the end of 2018 I threw everything out and started afresh with just my writing. I built the new me around one goal: I have to write at least 1,000 words a day. I called this goal 1K, and it changed my life. So long as I write a thousand words a day, the day is a success, and atop that I've managed over time to build the life I wanted all those years. My greatest flaws as a writer is I still use too many adjectives, adverbs, connectives as openers, accidental passive voice and I don't force my work down people's throats enough on pain of extreme and unusual torture. My greatest strength is I know my greatest flaws and I'm working on them.