Everything is a self-fulfilling prophecy and the Universe doesn’t hate you
Everything is a self-fulfilling prophecy and the Universe doesn’t hate you
I’ve already briefly touched on this subject when I talked about the pitfalls of people-pleasing. (You can read the entire post here).
When we talk about self-fulfilling prophecies, there’s usually a negative connotation attached to it. It’s usually used to warn people from attracting the very thing they’re afraid of or don’t want to experience. You’re afraid of getting fired from your job? You’re concerned that people in your class won’t like you? You’re scared you’ll miss your flight? “Don’t think about it, or else..!” You get the gist.
If we look at life from the standpoint that everything in this universe is connected, that we are all just energy particles swirling around in perfect harmony, and that everything we experience is a reflection of our own thought patterns and the vibration we give off, isn’t everything we experience a self-fulfilling prophecy?
This is a blog, so it’s a hypothetical question. I objectively agree with my thoughts, so let’s continue under this assumption.
Let’s assume your outside world is just a collection of co-operating components that behave in accordance to your vibration. Whether that be the waiter at a café, your mom, your supervisor, even the traffic lights, or the chair at home that you only seem to run into when you are already having a bad day. If everything aligns with our vibration, then we would also have to accept that, in the words of Taylor Swift ,“It’s me, hi, I’m the problem it’s me.”
Cooperative Components of our reality
Self-absorbed as I am, I had never given much thought to the idea that I am probably continuously serving as a cooperative component in other people’s lives and am not just this singled out main character in my own reality.
Let me explain.
Two years ago, I tried my luck as a waitress. I ditched that profession after four shifts at two different jobs in total. Anyone who has seen me work as a waitress knows that I’m not exaggerating when I say I was terrible. Not because I wasn’t a ball of joy and charm, no, the tipping game was actually quite good, but because I spilled so many drinks that it started to pose an economic threat to the overall profitability of the bar.
Did I spill the drinks on purpose? No. It just happened, I swear (that’s what I told my boss, too).
Now imagine you being the guest and entering our bar. You order a beer and look forward to having a chat with your friend. You already had a bad day at work and now just seek some chill chit-chat with your friend over a nice cold beer. Little do you know that you are about to be served by me - the only unqualified waitress in there. I take the order, you proceed to vent about your day, I enter the picture again, one bad move later and your shirt looks funky.
You, infuriated as you are, look up and start cussing me out in the most creative ways, which in turn serves as proof that I, in fact, suck at my job.
Given that I already painted the picture and told you about my overall skill level as a waitress, you could say it’s my fault and that’s that. You’re probably right, but the point is, I didn’t spill all my orders (it’s the small wins, okay!).
What if I created my own reality by saying that I was the worst waitress and you, who were already having a bad day, were served by me, Mrs. spills-drinks-alot just to give you another reason as to why your day was as bad as you perceived it to be? What if we were a universal match in the most unpleasant and twisted way and got skillfully played by the universe?
Well, maybe it’s just me, but that doesn’t seem so far-fetched.
Same magic happens in more pleasant ways. Things seem to work in our favor and fall perfectly into place that are outside our realm of influence, that is, if we tell our own story differently. After all, you get what you think about, right?
Just think about your life right now and the circumstances that led up to this very moment. For many of, us the bare fact that we even set foot on this planet is thanks to a series of fortunate and sometimes very unplanned events.
Order within Chaos?
Still, there’s a lot that does seem to occur randomly, at least within our understanding of this reality. It seems that a lot out there happens by chance and is orchestrated by what’s best described as raw chaos.
But even then.
At some point, even the dust of the greatest storms settles and eventually leave you with a clear vision of the reality that’s around you.
If you look back on your own life, you’ll begin to see the path that lead you up to where you are today. The singular events that once seemed so random, the hardships that came out of nowhere, the lessons we needed to go through, suddenly make sense.
You may have heard Steve Jobs’ now infamous Stanford commencement speech in 2005, where he also talked about trusting your path and that everything will eventually fall into place. He said:
“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.”
The Universe isn’t Santa Claus
The universe isn’t against us, nor does it necessarily root for us. If we take the example above, it doesn’t give a sh*t if I’m a bad waitress or not, but it responds to the vibration I feed it with and provides with absolute precision the matching output. It operates as this supercomputer - nature’s Version of ChatGPT if you will (just without all the human error and political influences *cough*). Unlike that Santa Claus story our parents used to tell us, it doesn’t carry a list of good and bad people in its pocket, it doesn’t hold grudges or waits until after you die to tell you what a shitty person you were in Summer Camp of 2008.
Speaking of open AI; Have you ever seen one of these AI-driven websites that allow you to create your own designs? You basically feed the system with certain keywords, and it starts to create, inspired by the chosen input. In the case of digital art, the picture gets funkier and more complex over time. If you don’t like the direction it’s taking, you simply restart it and use different keywords. It’s really cool, and a very accurate analogy of how the universe uses our vibration as an input to then provide us with the matching reality.
If we don’t like what we are experiencing or the reality that is being presented to us, then it’s up to us to change the input. And here it comes circling back to us again; we get what we think about.
People would say things like: “If my life wasn’t so bad, stressful, hectic etc., I might be able to finally enjoy it.” Asking the computer to present them with a different outcome by using the same input - that is our vibration - defies the rules of the universe and is an impossible task.
Granted, it’s a very practical way of looking at it, but it also takes away the pressure that there’s this higher power out there silently judging every misstep and not going to let you off the hook for all your sins, no matter how hard you try to make amends.
With that in mind, breathe, relax and hit that reset button whenever you feel like it.
The universe will always play along.
