Nostradamus Fallacies

Written in response to: "Center your story around someone trying to change a prophecy."

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To be or not to be. "The question was what?" Let's see if we can figure out what was meant by this saying and go from there. Then if we can figure it out and find the answer that was meant to be mentioned, then maybe the question behind life itself will be clearer than the sunshine morning removing the blinding fog.

It seems that when we only stop and figure out life in a more basic way, not allow ourselves to become a follower of the next big thing, then we will realize we are smarter than we give ourselves credit for.

For one to predict or believe they can predict the future is placing your own beliefs of what might, rather than what is. You don't allow yourself to be the master of your own destiny or the captain of your own ship, heading in the opposite direction away from the icebergs that may sink your ship.

The ones who predict you will become rich overnight are the ones actually getting richer, off of you and your hard-earned money. You can never find the easiest way to make it unless you try your own wild thought out ways to do this. Only you can become better at or more accurately better at, when you try it first.

You do not need any medications to help you relax or be less panicking, you do not need any self-help guides to give you more ways to find yourself. You do not need any assistance in becoming better at anything presently known to us as humans, just a plan and a decision to stick to the plan that you devised for yourself.

You start out strong and at the first sight of failure, you abandon ship, you take a leave of absence, you give up without a fight, a truly bloody knock them out fight, that could save you from being looked at as a loser. The truth may hurt now but it's better to hurt a little now than to be fed a lie and it hurt worse later, much worse.

To identify with one's own self, one must decide who they are and what they are, along with who they want to be and what they want to be. To discover the facts of being human and being one that knows what and who they are is not rocket science. It can be as simple as making a glass of orange juice for breakfast. You must decide for your own self, who and what you are, not let other blind idiots decide this for you.

"Are you the master of your life?" "Are you the one who is in control?" "Are you the one who will know which direction you will head in or which path you will follow down?" "If you answered no to one or more of these questions, then maybe you should rethink how you handle or take on problems in your life, in part or whole,

No one can make you change who or what you are, ever. No one can lead you anywhere that you do not want to go or be. No one can ever make you something that you are not or were never meant to be. To say that you are something you are not, or to identify as something or someone you are not, is lying to your own self.

You may realize later on that you made a big mistake in changing who or what you are and meant to be. You better think long and hard before making a decision that can alter your life eternally. One that can make you regret your decision not to leave well enough alone and just be happy with who you are and what you are presently.

Focusing more on what you want to be or become can be a greater reward in its own right. It can be added to the valuable qualities that help you better understand that your place in life is set in stone, you just have to discover it and then build upon it. To be the best of who you are and what you are can be more rewarding in a whole lifetime of choices that never focused on your identity and your thoughts of becoming someone or something you were never meant to be.

Others' views and opinions about us are not the defining factors of who we are and what we are. Others can offer advice and voice their replies and responses, but they have no rights to decide for us in how we decide who and what we are. Not what we were or what we will be, but what we are at present, today, never yesterday nor tomorrow.

If we need to ask others who or what we are or should be, we shortchange our own selves of all the possibilities that are there for us to decide who and what we are and to lead us to who and what we will become. The past had come and gone. The present is still with us as we live it, the future is filled with the hope and promise to be better and it allows us to do just that, make it. We may have to work hard towards it, may have to be creative and use some style.

We are the ones who live our lives as we believe and learn how to. We are the ones who can make or break into life. We have to decide how we will make it or break it into life, but slow is the pace that wins in the end. You are your own master, and the ship you sail is your choices that you make along the way.

Packages come and go, deliveries are made and your own efforts are rewarded in either a small way or a large way. Your rewards add to the journey and make the time spent more better as you see the results. You have to predict what may or may not happen, then if it works out, you can decide where you will be or why you will be. You are the only one who knows this, no one else can truly know what works best for you, ever.

If you never make any other decision to become better at being a person, then make this one decision just so you will know how easy it is to make decisions based on what you decide to be, based on who you are and what you are. Not after you make a mistake and realize all it took was one decision not to make any changes to who or what you are meant to be.

Posted Nov 10, 2025
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