intellect and believing in fate

Bumped into a friend on the bus today. I didn't realise at first because I had my earphones plugged in and I was listening to a talk about optimism bias.  Anyway, K was full surprised that I was listening to a TED speech. I don't just read blogs and gossip columns ahaha. I am also into politics (to a certain degree) and other intellectual stuff too!  Hahaha, just because my earphones are plugged in, it doesn't mean I'm bopping to JB's Boyfriend. I could just nodding furiously in agreement with someone's really inspiring speech, or shaking my head to something Mitt Romney says (geez that guy really infuriates me).

Felt like sharing that because the same thing has been said to me 3 times already today by different people.  I thought I looked intellectual. Ahaha, I mean, with the glasses and everything. But I guess I wasn't really fooling anyone. Yeah, so just to clarify, like Shrek, I'm like an onion with many layers. I have different layers to face different people. I am not just superficial (yeah, someone told me I was and I just got really cross. How rude, K!) or goofy or food obsessed.

The truth is, I don't like talking about politics to people who have strong opinions like myself. Different people have different views and I find it harder to like someone who has different political views to me. I need to learn to separate things, and assess things by themselves, but my bias will always be there. So I'd rather not talk about politics with friends or randoms. At home, we have really heated debates about world peace, war and politics (and other things like Bride Wannabes, K's future, what time I should go to bed, etc).  So yeah, many thanks to M&D for bringing me up like this, and also JL who was such a good mentor and friend (and many thanks for introing me to TED all those years ago).

Anyway, onto the real topic I wanted to talk about today (all that text above is just an FYI because I've never had so many people question my intellect in one day. Haha, they weren't sceptical, just surprised).  Do you believe in fate?  Nowadays, I find myself thinking more and more about predetermined situations/results.

Maybe I was just really aware of my surroundings today, but there were 3 very distinctive people from a particular point in my past that I saw today.  I thought 'Is this a sign? Am I supposed to do something about this?'

And to add to that, I keep crossing paths with X (not an initial) recently, and there have been some eerie coincidences with this person as well. Every night I come home and before I fall asleep I think about this.  Every night, I end up thinking "WTF! THIS IS SO WEIRD! Am I supposed to be doing something about this? Why is this happening?!"

And THEN this makes me think about religion, and my attitude towards my faith. This will not turn into a religious talk (don't worry ahaha), as religion is something I keep to myself and don't feel comfortable talking about at all. But yes. Currently, even though life is great, my mind is often cluttered with many, many question marks.

Wouldn't it be nice if there were answers for everything?

(how dry is this post, huh?)