It’s been sunny this morning, it’s been cloudy this morning, and I’ve tried to settle my mind to write despite the 14th episode of Marry My Husband, a KDrama starring a favorite actor, Park Min-young (and Na In-woo, who could absolutely play a perfectly brooding Heathcliff, along with an amazing and familiar cast) temptingly ahead of me. The show raises an intriguing question of fate.
While not giving too much away, because it’s really good and you should watch it, a woman gets another chance at life and is determined to transfer her tragic fate to the people who made it tragic.
Revenge time travel. Who knew it was a genre, but I love it.
There are so many layers to the concept of fate, starting with whether you believe in it. Of course if it exists, it doesn’t care if you believe in it or not, it will be what it is going to be.
But this idea that fate itself is sealed, it’s only how it happens and who it happens to that can change is a new idea for me. I don’t know enough about the views of fate in all corners of the world to say whether it’s a new idea, only that it’s new to me.
It’s like a loophole for free will, a little wiggle room for the inventible. If you knew fate was real, would you rise to meet it?
Work to avoid it? Which we all know in both time travel and fate stories tends to be the very thing that makes it happen.
Or would you toss it away like a hot potato, hoping it doesn’t come back before the music ends?
And if you chose that last one, can you be sure what fate will be tossed your way?
As for my utterly absorbing KDrama, I’m hoping for a happy ending, and if you watch any of these, at this point it can always go either way. Fate is an unseen character, the ultimate player of chess, moving the characters around the board.
It will be what it’s going to be.
Have a fabulous Tuesday.
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