I read somewhere, I've forgotten where exactly, that once, very long ago, Time fell in love with Fate. This, to me, immediately seemed problematic. As their romance would disrupt the flow of the universe. It would tangle the strings of fortune into knots. I wondered, what might happen to the days and nights were time to suffer a broken heart? What catastrophes might result if the same fate awaited Fate itself? Not sure what, but I think something happened to their love or maybe a higher power intervened. Because time continued to flow as it always had, or perhaps imperceptibly slower. Fate weaved together the paths that were meant to intertwine, though perhaps a string was missed here and there. Then suddenly, it seemed as if events that were once fated to happen were left instead to chance, and Chance never falls in love with anything for long. But the world is strange and endings are not truly endings no matter how the stars might wish it so. Maybe Fate can pull itself together again. And Time is always waiting.
