A brief Encounter With Destiny

She appeared behind the curtain suddenly and sat at the corner of my hospital bed. I had been crying and seeing Lady Philosophy made me cry even more because I knew she would tell me that after all this misery I have gone through, I would never find supreme happiness. Yet she was wrong, and somehow I needed to gather the strength to tell her. She needed to know the real truth in how we can attain happiness in this lifetime no matter what miseries we may have gone through.

‘You weep and weep and although I do not know the reason for your sadness, Destiny, I know that talking about it we can somehow find consolation in your troublesome situation. Tell me of the burdens that make you so sad.’

‘My two kids, and my husband and I were all asleep when it happened. My smallest child came screaming into our bedroom as the fire alarm went off. We all panicked and started running. Somehow the fire spread so fast from one side of the house to another. We were all in there too long, in the midst of tragedy we were holding on to each other trying to fight our way out of the flames. Although my husband and I managed to send the kids off first, it must have been too much for their small lungs. I then ra

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The way I see the evil that exists in this life, is as an instrument to the good. Thomas Aquinas as a source to back up my argument. My experience with them has been filled with complete goodness making them good. It works to bring about a better good by testing people. ’

‘What is it about God that only he can achieve happiness and that it isolates us from ever achieving it?’

‘Well, with Boethius we discussed that happiness is found through the possession of divinity. You see Lady Philosophy, we differ in our definitions of evil. ’

After this statement Lady Philosophy stood up and looked in my eyes, searching possibly for the source of my truth. And is happiness not when one can no longer desire any other kind of good?’

‘Yes, we can agree on that definition of happiness. So here I am now without a family and barely able to move because of all the burns I have on my body. You see then, evil is helping us to perfect the virtues so that when we have attained genuine virtues, we will have achieved happiness because nothing else, or evil, will be desired. We were all rushed to the hospital and I was separated from my kids. Which is another example of my argument. Since there are these side-tracks, or evil in the world, it is then impossible to have a perfect good. And since then we are like God who is the source of perfect happiness, then we too can be the source of our own perfect happiness.

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